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EBOOK THREE CITIES: LOURDES, VOL. 4 ***


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THE THREE CITIES

LOURDES

BY
EMILE ZOLA
Volume 4.

TRANSLATED BY ERNEST A. VIZETELLY

THE FOURTH DAY

I
THE BITTERNESS OP DEATH
AT the Hospital of Our Lady of Dolours, that morning, Marie remained
seated on her bed, propped up by pillows. Having spent the whole night at
the Grotto, she had refused to let them take her back there. And, as
Madame de Jonquiere approached her, to raise one of the pillows which was
slipping from its place, she asked: "What day is it, madame?"
"Monday, my dear child."
"Ah! true. One so soon loses count of time. And, besides, I am so happy!
It is to-day that the Blessed Virgin will cure me!"
She smiled divinely, with the air of a day-dreamer, her eyes gazing into
vacancy, her thoughts so far away, so absorbed in her one fixed idea,
that she beheld nothing save the certainty of her hope.
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