concern, besought her to receive, and consider with gratitude, the salutary and valuable advice of the holy father.
"Remember, my child," added she, with the look and accents of a departing saint, "that this separation, though to us mournful and afflictive, is the will of the Most High God, and that we ought to submit without a murmur to his unerring Providence! Let us then, instead of arrogating to ourselves the right of disputing his mercy and equity, prove, by the most implicit obedience to his divine decrees, that we are not unworthy to be called his servants; and give me reason to believe, my Julie, that the lessons of fortitude, which I have so frequently given you, have not been delivered in vain.
"I leave you, my darling alone and, almost unfriended, in a world in which you will find much occasion for the exercise of this estimable virtue. The only relationyou
