of my teeth were broken. I was supported
by an invisible hand and in a little time I mounted as well as I could
on another horse and had a man by my side to keep me up.

My relations left me in peace at Gex. They had heard at Paris of my
miraculous cure; it made a great noise there. Many persons in
reputation for sanctity then wrote to me. I received letters from
Mademoiselle De Lamoignon, and another young lady, who was so moved
with my answer, that she sent me a hundred pistoles for our house, and
let me know besides that, when we wanted money, I had only to write to
her; and that she would send me all I could desire. They talked in
Paris of printing an account of the sacrifice I had made, and inserting
in it the miracle of my sudden recovery. I don't know what prevented
it; but such is the inconstancy of the creature, that this journey,
which drew upon me at that time so much applause, has served for a
pretext for the strange condemnation which has since passed upon me.

CHAPTER 5

My near relations did not signify any eager desire for my return. The
first thing they proposed to me, a month after my arrival at Gex, was
not only to give up my guardianship, but to make over all my estate to
my children and to reserve an annuity to myself. This proposition,
coming from people who regarded nothing but their own interest, to some
might have appeared very unpleasing; but it was in no wise so to me. I
had not any friend to advise with. I knew not anyone whom I could
consult about the manner of executing the thing, as I was quite free
and willing to do it. It appeared to me that I had now the means of
accomplishing the extreme desire I had of being conformable to Jesus
Christ, poor, naked, and stripped of all. They sent me an article to
execute, which had been drawn under their inspection, and I innocently
signed it, not perceiving some clauses which were inserted therein. It
expressed that, when my children should die, I should inherit nothing
of my own estate, but that it should revolve to my kindred. There were
many other things, which appeared to be equally to my disadvantage.
Though what I had reserved to myself was sufficient to support me in
this place; yet it was scarcely enough to do so in some other places. I
then gave up my estate with more joy, for being thereby conformed to
Jesus Christ, than they could have who asked it from me. It is what I
have never repented of, nor had any uneasiness about. What p