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MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE. 235
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difficultiesand wearisomeness of the task she imposed on herself , The incessant , translation of her own words from , patois into French _, known to themt
prehension no and clear elemen back head a tary gain of as minds books well to the unused as to a _singul assist warm to ar her thoug heart jargon in h shedding . t or Much alone mental li less g exercise ht moral on the , courage demanded dim , com wi is -
a required personal for priva the mart tion yr ' s ever dea y th sor , than t , endured for the dail patien y , weekl t suppor y , mon t of pa thl in - God and the
under welfare yearly , such of for others the a wei sole . ht Many sake but a hers of buoyant promo was t of sp in iri that g t t would he sterling glory have stamp of been which prostrated does
not start back appalle g , d and paralyzed by perplexities and disappointments . She had deliberately chosen the rough road by which to of
is accomp tence lish to that her eternal pilgrima one ge to throug which h this all travellers transitory are stage bound our . She
exa eye fa ther coun were ' s ted experience t ever he cos " less t , and , flowery that magnanimousl nothing , but she could is y persevered so p much ossibly . t have o To be t a dreaded common , from ,
heard profi nothing tless from so existence him truly of miserable . the It Sisters is , indeed or of desp , Gharit more icab y l t han , tha as probable t nob idle le order , t purposeless hat , f ounded had ,
in hy Saint Ca Vincen tholic t countries de Paul . a cen Protestant tury before , , , being could wel no l t j oin tablished them ! many
Poorshe could not follow their footsteps in ministering to the bodily life wan ' ts , hopes of her fellow j - possi creatures bl , but their ted her glorious own . abandonmen With Peter t she of
s oys y sugges might have said , " Silver and gold I have none , but such as I have I g There ive . " is something inexpressibltouching and patriarchal in her
whole history and manner of life . y Seated under these majestic umbrageous trees for which Helvetia is celebrated , she taug in the t reading familiar in
speech the ancient of the dialect peasantry of the , and , Romande the French , still recognised language to all who asired to a better condition in society , that tongue being in more
p modern times what the Lingua-Franca was in the days of the Crusades , a passport enabling the bearer to make often himself entirel understood
the instruction wherever service he , conducted domestic may choose or many military to go an ; , ambitious and of various her denizen neighbouring of the y gratuitous potentates Alps into
Parle " Speak % for au e to ign porteiir the nobles porter , Parlez , as " and soldiers au IIfrappe _Sutsse , couriers , m comme ean , precisely valets un Suisse , or the petty , " same He officials strikes thing . ,
; like digent a porter classes , "— of are the idioms Swiss nation plainly were indicating obliged how to mi frequentl grate from y the their inof
beautiful what inestimable , but barren valu coun e educati try into on mu other st be lands to th , and em . consequentl Pier own y sex villmaidens
was thus not less lished indebted found to her their ; for many into of aristocratic these age families , as , accomp , way 2
vox / , in . s
Maria Bocci La Moinette. 235
MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE . 235
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/19/
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