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46 THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF
M~~~~min.-After she had said, "The grapes
will rot, and the walnuts will become bad."
Then the Lady said something to me in
French, and mid, &'You shall not say this,
nor thia nor thia".. .She also kept silence for
a short time; it seemed to me that she wag
.speaking to Nelanie.
&.-What o'clock waa it when you woke
and saw the Lady?
Maoirnin.-It was about two or three
o'clock.
Such is the recital of Maximin. On the
few discrepancies, in form rather than sub;
stance, between the narratives of the two
children, I shall make some observations
later on. It is the common remark of the
mystic writers, that celestial apparitions cause
diamay at first, but end in consolation; whilst
those which are of an infernal origin, how whatever
attractiveness they may put forth at the
very beginning, but end in troubling the soul,
And the recorded visions of the sacred Sc~ip
tures bear out this rule. So far as this tent
is concerned, I leave the reader to apply it to
the simple narrative of these uneducated children.
One feature runs through the whole of
this case, which, as a proof of the sincerity of
the children, has struck me much, and strikes
me the more as I examine more minutely into
it. In replying to those countless interrogations
which have been put to them, of
which whole volumes have been recorded,
whilst they thought but of describing the
apparition, and the circumstances attending
their own share in it, they have unconsciously
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