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162 LA SGEUE ROSALIE.
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tiie terrified woman and kept the children good ; and when the sick man recoveredshe had acquired a hold over his better nature which
, lation she neve crimes r again of relin the qui worst shed d . Amon came under g that low her knowled and miserable ge , and popu she
brought , round those to repentance ye who thought they had surpassed the possible limits of Divine mercy . She brought into the Christian
fold one man whose hands had been deeply dyed in blood during- the first of the revolutionand who always said that he owed the
final liious years peace influence of his of cruell one y li afflicted ttl , e habit conscience to which to in her his , worst and to times the re he
horrible had g clung murders . When of he 1793 was : a the youth numerous , at Nantes victims , he had as they helped marched in the
, to death , chanted a hymn , which , strangely enough , lingered in the ears of this human fiend . He took to repeating it every day ,
no matter how ill spent ; a sort of nervous habit which kept the words in his memory : and when , long years after , La Soeur Rosalie
eleventh at length hour persuaded he died him repeating that he mi the ght same repent hymn and , and be save pray d ing at ' the for
, her who had brought him to the feet of Christ . In this bad quarter of tile town no sick person rejected the
priest sent by La Soeur Rosalie ; and we find an anecdote of the in which the memory of her good deeds lingered with the worst
way characters . In one of her most miserable streets lived an old ragseller who had saved up money , deserted his wife , and led a
scanhis dalous daug life hter , seeming , whom to he retain sent to no the trace Sisters of good 7 School feeling . On excep his t his towards
deathbed he sent for La Sceur Rosalie , whom he had known in days of wretchedness , who had nursed him in some illness , but had lost siht of him altogether . She went at his callgroped up a winding
staircase g bthe helof a cordinto a dark room , where she found the old man , y lying p in squalor . , When he saw , herhe explained
, that he wanted to leave his money to his daughter , and having no faith in the honesty of any of his friends , thought he had better give
it into the hands of his old nurse . " But , " said she , " pray send for a land make your will properly . "
" No awyer , I don , 't want a lawyer ; I know you and believe in you . Take the money , that I may die easy about my daughter . "
The Sceur then talked to him about his soul , and begged him . to receive the offices of the church .
•¦ No , I don't want a priest / ' said the miser ; _" nobody is nearer God than you are , and we can talk very well together about
everything which concerns heaven . " It took some time before La Sceur Rosalie could persuade the old
ragman that she was neither priest nor lawyer : however , she comforted him btaking charge of fifteen thousand francs for Ms
y daughter ; and in exchange for this good office , he consented to see a priest , and _Tbe reconciled to Ms wife before he died .
( To be continued in our naxt _*)
162 La Sgeue Rosalie.
162 LA SGEUE ROSALIE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/18/
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