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BOSA FERRTJCGI. 231
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extreme self-denial , she answered , " How could I do otherwise ? You know very well it was impossible" " Oh ! holy
impossibilities , " adds her biographer , " which only embarrass those who cannot resign themselves to the suffering's of others . "
In the cemeteries of Pisa , as elsewhere on the Continent , it is the custom to decorate the graves with wreaths of flowers . There were
some , however , unornamented , —perchance , those who loved the sleepers had gone to far distant lands , or others of them , had been
desolate in life , and were forgotten in death . While Kosa _Ferrucci lived these lonely graves were adorned like the restfor " I ity
abandoned graves so much , " said she . We cannot , wonder that p her biographer tells us " that the poor blessed her as she passed
along . " Hosa was scarcely seventeen when she was betrothed to Si
Gaetano Orsini , an advocate of Leghorn . The lovers were gnor frequently separated , and their correspondence therefore was a constant
one . And what a contrast to what are generally called " love letters " were those from Rosa to Gaetano I—not that she was of a cold
_orJplacid nature , incapable of a passionate affection . She " could no longer pray without bringing in his name ; " he was to her " the
last word of God's benediction . " " May God make thee happy , and all my desires will be crowned ! " Her letters to him were like the
pourings out of her heart before God . So close was the union which subsisted between them that she feared not to let him watch
the alternations of hope and fear , joy and sorrow . " I open my whole soul to you , Gaetano , for you must be the support of my life ,
share all my thoughts , dissipate my fears , be my counsel and my guide . " To him she expressed her lively regret for her faultsto
him were confided her hopes and plans of improvement . It , has been truly said that we cannot read one part of a correspondence
without seeing something of what has been passing in the mind of the other writer , and we may therefore presume to guess somewhat
of the character of this well-loved , " Gaetano . " It is saying a good deal his fiancee when . we His acknowle letters d to ge hea that % were he seems filled neither to have with been unmeaning worthy of
flattery or effeminate expressions of affection . She was a woman to whom a man might safely intrust the workings of his inner life .
When he was sad or weary he wrote to her for consolation , when pressed on by life ' s cares she was his help . "If you are sad" she
writes alternate to him on , earth " remember in order that to God deep wills en in that our joy souls and the sorrow desire should , for
that life where there is no weeping ; and how can "we be Christians and not be willing to accept suffering for a God "who has suffered
so much for us ? I speak to you of these things , Gaetano , because they are my daily strength and consolation . Keep them in your
heart , often recall them to memory , and you will see sadness disappear as La nev al sol si disigilla "
Once he evidently had expressed a fear lest his letter should have
Bosa Ferrtjcgi. 231
BOSA _FERRTJCGI . 231
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/15/
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