not believe she will consent to bind herself. It is
not likely that, having given up everything in the hope of going to
Geneva, she should bind herself elsewhere, and thus render it
impossible for her to accomplish God's designs for her. She has
offered to remain with these good Sisters as a lodger. If they
desire to keep her in that capacity she will remain with them; if
not, she is resolved to withdraw into some convent until God shall
dispose of her otherwise." The Bishop answered, "My Father, I know
all that, but at the same time I know she is obedient, and if you so
order her, she will surely do it."

"It is for this reason, my lord, because she is obedient, that one
should be extremely cautious in the commands one gives her,"
answered the Father.

This ecclesiastic and his friend went through all the places where
Father La Combe had held his mission, to decry him and to speak
against him so violently that a woman was afraid to say her "Pater"
because, she said, she had learned it from him. They made a fearful
scandal through the whole country; for the day after my arrival at
the Ursulines of Thonon, he set out in the morning to preach lenten
sermons at the Valley of Aosta. He came to say adieu to me, and at
the same time told me he would go to Rome, and probably would not
return, that his superiors might keep him there, that he was sorry
to leave me in a strange country without help, and persecuted by
every one. Did not that trouble me? I said to him; "My Father, I am
not troubled at it. I use the creatures for God, and by His order;
through His mercy I get on very well without them.

"I am quite content never to see you again, if such be His will, and
to remain under persecution."

For me, there was hardly a day passed that they did not put upon me
new insults, and make attacks quite unexpected. The New Catholics,
on the report of the Bishop, the ecclesiastic, and the Sisters of
Gex, stirred up against me all people of piety. I was not much
affected by that. If I had been at all, it would have been because
everything was thrown upon Father La Combe, although he was absent;
and they made use even of his absence, to destroy all the good he
had done in the country by his missions and sermons, which was very
great. The Devil gained much in this business. I could not, howe