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    XrA SCEUR ROSALIE. 309

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    ming " Mother led " expressions _-withthe of most respect atrociou for s lier threats whom against they calle the d officer tlieir .

    "He has , massacred , our comradeswe must have his death ; we want our prisoner" La Soeur expressed , her horror at the thought of

    . the blood of an unarmed man staining the soil of her court . We won't kill Mm herewe will kill him in the street . " In spite of

    prayers and promises , , the insurgents pressed upon their victim ; their actuallrested on the shoulders of the nunswho still

    guns y , maintained their ground between him and them . It seemed as though an instant fire was imminent , when La Sceur Rosalie flung

    herself on her knees before the crowd , crying out , " For fifty years I have devoted my life to you , and as a return for the good I have the

    ever done to you , to your wives , to your children , I demand life She of this prevailed man at and your the hands prisoner . " was saved ! Two days later she

    was Of the begg dreadful ing for , the poverty freedom whi of ch several followed of the these insurgents days of themselves June , of .

    the and misery of the endured exertions by made the families by the mayor of the of men Paris who in were conj arreste unction d ,

    with La _Soeur Rosalie to relieve it , we have not space to speak in detail . The great efforts made by the authorities were

    painlest fully numerous and absurdl deaths y abused should ; in occur the from excitement hunger and the desperate public charit fear y

    away was flung the provisions about recklessl which y were . Peop given le came out with in omnibuses , an unstinted to hand fetch ,

    and others assumed various disguises in the course of a day and so received rations ad libitum . La Soeur organised a system of visiting

    from house to house by charitable men , and redeemed the work from beautiful disorganisation But our and scanty insp and iring space ill success history gives . to warning its close that ; and we indeed finished must the when bring end was this

    oh drawing reader ni read g h , within these lines the from decade a which which will has be aimed to reproduce you , had for years you been a , gradual ho , the wever soul blindness faintl of her y , household fell the upon record pea was La of Soeur a led noble about Rosalie life blindfold . , and In slie her _Tby who last the

    tender hands of her nuns ; 'they led her into that low parlor , the scene of her manifold labors , and seated her in her chair , where those

    whom she had ever been wont to seek and call one by one from the which griefs attendant to had the crowd failed heart , now in which non came e had of up its lost to enetr none her ating , of and its told vivacity tenderness their ; " wants , one to the forgot and intellect their that

    one was talking to a blind woman p . " In October , 1 leams 855 , a of skilful vision

    surgeon operated on her for cataract ; but the faint g restored to her were soon obscured , and she was blind once more .

    year who In the s had very first long failing days trembled , of ) thoug 1856 for _-ht she her she seemed health had taken , so ( never well a , strong new that lease , her and friends of of life late . ,

    Xra Sceur Rosalie. 309

    XrA SCEUR ROSALIE . 309

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/21/