ght, and I was
sure of being well received."

"And you never were refused hospitality?"

"Never. To be sure I did not ask for much; when I was wandering I only
begged for a piece of bread and a glass of water, and to rest on a truss
of straw in the cow-house."

"And Father Gevresin--how did you first know him?"

"That is quite a long story. Fancy! Heaven, as a punishment, deprived me
of the Communion for a year and three months to a day. When I confessed
to a priest, I owned to my intercourse with Our Saviour, and the Virgin
and the Angels; then he at once treated me as a mad woman, unless he
accused me of being possessed by the devil; to conclude, he refused me
absolution, and I thought myself happy if he did not slam the little
wicket of the confessional roughly in my face at my very first words.

"I believe I should have died of grief if the Lord had not at last had
pity on me. One Saturday, when I was in Paris, He sent me to Notre Dame
des Victoires, where the Father was in the confessional. He listened to
me, he put me through long and severe tests, and then he granted me
Communion. I often went to him again as a penitent, and then the niece
who kept house for him retired into a convent, and I took her place;
and I have been his housekeeper near on ten years now--"

She told her story with many breaks. Since she had ceased to wander
about the country, she followed the pilgrimages in Paris in honour of
the Blessed Virgin, and she had a list of the most popular sanctuaries:
Notre-Dame des Victoires, Notre-Dame de Paris; Our Lady of Good Hope at
Saint-Severin, of Ever-present Help at L'Abbaye au Bois, of Peace at the
convent in the Rue Picpus, of the Sick at the church of Saint-Laurent,
of Happy Deliverance--a black Virgin from the church of Saint-Etienne
des Gres--in the care of the Sisters of Saint-Thomas de Villeneuve, Rue
de Sevres; and outside Paris the shrines in the suburbs: Our Lady of
Miracles at Saint-Maur, of the Angels at Bondy, of the Virtues at
Aubervilliers, of Good Keeping at Long Pont, and those of Notre-Dame at
Spire, at Pontoise, &c.

On another occasion, as he seemed suspicious of the severity of the rule
imposed on her by Christ, she replied,--

"Remember, our friend, what happened to an illustrious handmaid of the
Lord, Maria d'Agreda; being very ill, she yielded to the wishes of her
daughters in the faith and sucked a mouthful of chicken, but she was
forthwith reproved by Jesus, who sai