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Seraphita

CHAPTER III
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His bride was the daughter of a London shoemaker, in whom, said Swedenborg, the life of Heaven shone, she having passed through all anterior trials.

After the death, that is, the transformation of the prophet, the baron came to Jarvis to accomplish his celestial nuptials with the observances of Prayer.

As for me, who am not a Seer, I have only known the terrestrial works of this couple.
Their lives were those of saints whose virtues are the glory of the Roman Church.

They ameliorated the condition of our people; they supplied them all with means in return for work,--little, perhaps, but enough for all their wants.

Those who lived with them in constant intercourse never saw them show a sign of anger or impatience; they were constantly beneficent and gentle, full of courtesy and loving-kindness; their marriage was the harmony of two souls indissolubly united.


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