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The Dream

CHAPTER III
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In the meanwhile, weeks and months went by.

Two years had passed.
Angelique was now fourteen years of age and quite womanly.

When she read the "Golden Legend," she would have a humming in her ears, the blood circulated quickly through the blue veins near her temples, and she felt a deep tenderness towards all these virgin saints.
Maidenhood is the sister of the angels, the union of all good, the overthrow of evil, the domain of faith.

It gives grace, it is perfection, which has only need to show itself to conquer.

The action of the Holy Spirit rendered Lucy so heavy that a thousand men and five pair of oxen could not drag her away from her home.


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