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48 TEE HOLY YOU~AIN
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exact words in which, after the vision had
departed, she found utterance, were these:-
" It is either God, or my father's Blessed
Virgin, or a great saint." Maximin caught
st the last words, his ideas were changed, and
he regretted he had not asked the great saint
to take them with her.
In reading the many conversations taken
down from the lips of the children, or in conversing
with them, it is very remarkable, as
the AbbC Rouseelot has also observed, how
completely the whole form and presence of
the " beautiful Lady" is fixed, and, as it were,
stereotyped in their minda. Indeed, quite as
much as her words However ne* or unexpected
the question, they are never at a loss;
they never require time to remember; they
seem to look for an instant, as if at the type
within them, and then reply, both with clearness
and confidence. And all their answers,
given, as they have been, to every rank and 4
class of persons, questioning with every degree
of ability, and under all possible varieties
of circumstances, and that for s course of more
than eight year's, when brought together, are
found to have a consistency, a keeping, and n
symmetry; such, that the last replies tend
only to add a finer perfection to the picture
which they sketched on the first day. Thus,
whil~t the prophetic words stand in their
original simplicity, unchanged and unadded
to, this incessant agitation of enquiry has
brought out a development in the description
of the apparition. Then the children have
learnt the French language, and have, with