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Ursula

CHAPTER XIX
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His conversion, as he told me at least twenty times, dated from the day when a woman in Paris heard you praying for him in Nemours, and saw the red dot you made against Saint-Savinien's day in your almanac." Ursula uttered a piercing cry, which alarmed the priest; she remembered the scene when, on returning to Nemours, her godfather read her soul, and took away the almanac.
"If that is so," she said, "then my visions are possibly true.

My godfather has appeared to me, as Jesus appeared to his disciples.

He was wrapped in yellow light; he spoke to me.

I beg you to say a mass for the repose of his soul and to implore the help of God that these visions may cease, for they are destroying me." She then related the three dreams with all their details, insisting on the truth of what she said, on her own freedom of action, on the somnambulism of her inner being, which, she said, detached itself from her body at the bidding of the spectre and followed him with perfect ease.

The thing that most surprised the abbe, to whom Ursula's veracity was known, was the exact description which she gave of the bedroom formerly occupied by Zelie at the post house, which Ursula had never entered and about which no one had ever spoken to her.
"By what means can these singular apparitions take place ?" asked Ursula.
"What did my godfather think ?" "Your godfather, my dear child, argued my hypothesis.


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