In the ruin of
his house she would not consent to leave them, but followed their
fortunes to New France. She had been the faithful friend and
companion of the wife of the Bourgeois and the educator of his
children, and was now, in her old age, the trusted friend and
manager of his household. Her days were divided between the
exercises of religion and the practical duties of life. The light
that illumined her, though flowing through the narrow window of a
narrow creed, was still light of divine origin. It satisfied her
faith, and filled her with resignation, hope, and comfort.
Her three studies were the Bible, the hymns of Marot, and the
sermons of the famous Jurieu. She had listened to the prophecies of
Grande Marie, and had even herself been breathed upon on the top of
Mount Peira by the Huguenot prophet, De Serre.
Good Dame Rochelle was not without a feeling that at times the
spiritual gift she had received when a girl made itself manifest by
intuitions of the future, which were, after all, perhaps only
emanations of her natural good sense and clear intellect--the
foresight of a pure mind.
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