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232 BOS A FERRUCCI.
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saddened her also . She replies , Ihave received your dear letter ; and that you should not think it cast a gloom over meknow that I also
have been thinking of death , and have "been pray , ing to God for mercy when the hour conies to pass from time to eternityand I
, hope dally umano al divino . " The remembrance of some past bereavement was pressing on Ms heart . She tries to comfort him , and
sweetly adds , * ' I say not these things to preach _patience to you—that would not become me—but to give you a word of help ; for I know
what you have suffered , what you still suffer in secret . A press of "business and our exterior duties do not exclude the sorrowful
memories which rend your heart . . . . If I were sharing your life I would do everything I could to sustain and encourage you in
days like these . " Rosa looked forward to her marriage with a sort of awe . To her
the duties of a Christian , wife appeared to be most sacred and full of responsibility , and her aim was to prepare herself for their
worthy fulfilment . "I have so great an idea , " she writes to Gaetano , _" of the perfection a Christian wife should possessand of her duties
, , that truly I should be terrified if I did not trust In the help of God , who can do alland who will help me who can do nothing . At
another time she , wrote"We shall have but one will between us . Our affection springs , not from external appearances , nor from
outward beauty—that flower of a day—our souls are knit together by a stronger tie . "
The deep views that Rosa entertained of duty were ., indeed , the distinguishing ones of her life Everything she did was but with
one end—to glorify God ; for her piety was deep , unaffected , and practical . Her literary studies were pursued in this spirit , and at
again their , close I would she onl c y ould do it lo with ok b more ack careful and say app " lication If I had . ' to A beg secondary in over
xnotive she had also in her studies— " I owe to them my best life pleasures with ; I . owe " Faithfull to them did alone she all my out interchange the true woman of intellectual 7 s ideal carry
not to raise you herself out of y her place , but to fill it worthily by becom- , ingso far as was fitting for herthe intellectual equal of man .
This , did not prevent her from shrinking , back from any knowledge which could have informed her mind at the expense of tarnishing
Its transparent purity . One of her rules for _lier conduct _foimd among her private papers after her death was " never to read a
doubtful book . " Thus her character was so "balanced , that she could turn brightly and readily from her poetry to her needlework ,
from her music to her domestic duties . Her love for nature was almost a passion . The mountains , the
sea , the flowers , and trees , were sources of the purest pleasures to her ; and when she could not actually enjoy themshe loved to retrace in
imagination , her favorite walks ,, and to recall , the sweet thoughts to
which " How they many things given _kavG rise . been " Nothing taught is me mute by the to mountains me , " she says , the
232 Bos A Ferrucci.
232 BOS A FERRUCCI .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/16/
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