She could still beg God to heal the feud.

How edifying, how beautiful, how sublime the spectacle!--sublimer than the deeds of heroes, the conceptions of poets, the aspirations of genius.

What is Archimedes moving the world to the humblest Christian moving heaven by prayer! In a corner of the room a small statue of the Immaculate Mother of God stood upon a pedestal.

The marble figure breathed all that purity and simplicity so striking in the images which adorned the old Gothic cathedrals.

The eyes of the maiden frequently rested upon it, and as often as sunset came, she would bid the countess place a bunch of flowers at its feet.