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    LA SCETJR ROSALIE. 299 I

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    had been confided as a special charge . Tlie Faubourg' Saint Marceau , withits depressed population and its individual institutions for

    relief , , might seem enough to occupy a busy woman ' s life . But she found time for moreOne sometimes hears it said that the people

    . who have the most to do make the most leisure ; they are -more methodicalrise earlierand do not fritter away minutes and hours

    in that inconceivable , succession , of nothings which devour the lives of the social butterflies . So , when people came to ask help from

    La Sceur Rosalie , she never said , " I have no time ; " and they did ask it all round , —individuals , societies , institutions , the church , the

    state , the world at large , all became accustomed to apply to her in emergencies Hardlwas ; and she she installed received in them her all own . definite herethan all sp

    sorts of y links sprang up between her and the town ; letters , and s passed to and fro ; the first whom she helped told

    others messenger , and these again in their turn spread the fame of her ready and efficacious sympathy ; and if any person wanted to succour

    another and did not know how , they were despatched to La Soeur Rosalie . At whatever time of day a knock came at her door , she

    received the visitor with politeness or with affection , seemed at leisure to attend to him or her , as if there were nobody else in the

    world . She bent all her mind to unravel the difficulty , and the thickest lications untied themselves under her skilful hand .

    Her extensive comp connections gave her wonderful facilities in this way , and her clear head enabled her to avail herself of them .

    Whatever was the matter she found a remedy ; she sent one child to a emp creche loyment , another for a to youth school ; she , apprenticed got the old a man girl , into and an hit asy upon lum , and an

    procured a pension for the wounded soldier . She made the verythem peop with le their g who ive particular money were waitin or powers influence g for of an ; hel if audience p they ; if were they of poor were her , , she ri each ch set , she come them made out to

    write her letters and take her messages . She used them up one by and one , she and made played it off a rule their never needs to and turn their a deaf resources ear to into each lication other ; any app

    , because she said" God will send the money and the means . " She also looked after , the moral welfare of those whom she assisted with

    material sent from hel Nantes p , and to did Paris not relax to whom her hold the . ital A skilful offered workm great an temp was t , cap

    tations ; she got him at on , ce a lucrative employ ; but affixed to it a condition that he should regularlbring to her the portion of his

    salary necessary for the maintenance y of the family he had left behind ; and while she lived he never broke his promise .

    When For sometimes indigent respectability she saw some she one maintained who had written the tenderest a tale of delicacy misery . ,

    too send sh him y to on speak an errand about it for when her he to a came distant to her street house , with , she a packet would _,

    addressed—to himself ! She had a mysterious faculty for divining

    La Scetjr Rosalie. 299 I

    LA SCETJR ROSALIE . 299 I

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/11/