Perhaps the monks meant this to express their contempt and
hatred for heretics; and how queer, that this antipathy should survive
their own damnation! But I cannot help hoping that the case of these
poor devils may not be so desperate as they think. They cannot be wholly
lost, because their desire for communication with mortals shows that they
need sympathy, therefore are not altogether hardened, therefore, with
loving treatment, may be restored.
A great many other wonders took place within the knowledge and experience
of Mrs. P------. She saw, not one pair of hands only, but many. The
head of one of her dead children, a little boy, was laid in her lap, not
in ghastly fashion, as a head out of the coffin and the grave, but just
as the living child might have laid it on his mother's knees. It was
invisible, by the by, and she recognized it by the features and the
character of the hair, through the sense of touch. Little hands grasped
hers. In short, these soberly attested incredibilities are so numerous
that I forget nine tenths of them, and judge the others too cheap to be
written down.
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