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Catherine found her anger ebbing and pity stealing into her heart.
Could this tired child be the virago against whom she had sworn vengeance?
It had none of a woman's allure' no arts of the light-of-love. Its eyes
were as simple as a boy's.... She looked almost kindly at the drooping
Maid.
But in a moment the languor seemed to pass from her. Her face lit up, as to
the watcher in the darkness a window in a tower suddenly becomes a square
of light. She sank on her knees, her head thrown back, her lips parted, the
long eyelashes quiet on her cheeks. A sudden stillness seemed to fall on
everything. Catherine held her breath, and listened to the beating of her
heart.
Jeanne's lips moved, and then her eyes opened. She stood up again, her face
entranced and her gaze still dwelling on some hidden world. . . Never had
Catherine seen such happy radiance.
"My Brothers of Paradise spoke with me. They call me sometimes when I am
sad. Their voices said to me, 'Daughter of God, go forward. We are at your
side.


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