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LA SCEUli ROSALIE. 161
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going * down to _spsak to her people , and did not always succeed . During one of her illnesses , tlie sister who had charge of the house
refused a man _belonging" to the quarter admission to La Sceur Rosalie . The man lost his temper , and grumbled loudly at not being
attended to . La Soeur Hosalie overheard him , came down shivering with fever , listened to him , soothed him , and promised to attend to
his wishes .. When he was gone she gently scolded the sister for not having told her he was there ; the sister appealed to the strict
orders . of the medical man , and observed that the applicant had rudely lost his temper . " Ah , my child , " said La Sceur Rosalie ,
66 the poor fellow has something else to do than studying good manners , "
Thus the miserable inhabitants of the Faubourg St . Marceau took a liabit of going many times in the week to pour all their
troubles , large and small , into the ears of this forgiving friend . Not only for bodily wants , but for all manner of sorrows and
difficulties , they came to her . "When tii _^ world rebuffed them , when a workshop refused them work , or a baker would not give them , bread
on credit ; if a landlord expelled them and sold up their furniture to pay a deficient rent ; if a policeman would not let them sell their
petty wares in the street , but told them , as we should say in England , to " move on ; " if the son had been saucy to his father ,
or the daughter had abandoned her mother's fireside ;—these grievances one and all found their way to her . Her welcome comforted
them for the scorn of others ; she gave them food for the day , pleaded for their admission to the workshop , softened the hearts of
the landlord and the policeman , persuaded the undutiful son to ask his parent's pardon , and brought back to the sheepfold the
wandering lamb . The sinners came with the well-behaved , those who deserved her
kindness and those who had abused It , for the _g-ood Soeur sent no one away . She told everybody the truth and made them ashamed
of themselves , and then found some excuse for not punishing them . Nevertheless there was one tipsy fellow , who had so often sold for
drink the clothes and bedding she had given him , that she formed the resolution not to give him any more . One winter , in the first days
of frost , he made an audacious demand for a counterpane , which sooner was refused warml . y covered But when up than night her came kind , La heart Sceur began Rosalie fretting was 1 about no
him . " That man must be very cold / ' was an idea that kept her awake all the night , and the next day she sent the counterpane , "in
order , " slio said , " that we may both sleep soundly . " When sickness fell upon a poor family , all the . resources of her
heart and intellect came out . She prevented the gradual sale of furniture , so bitter in these households , when one by one each article is
pawned or sold for daily bread ; she coaxed the busy doctors to give especial care to her invalids ; she kept up their courage : she
mingled religious consolation with temporal help ; she strengthened
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La Sceuli Rosalie. 161
LA _SCEUli ROSALIE . 161
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/17/
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