It was there that her simple tastes and loving soul found nutriment and scope for her sensibility.
Her life was there divided between household cares, the improvement of her mind, and active charity--that cultivator of the heart.

Adored by the peasants, whose protectress she was, she applied to the consolation of their miseries the little to spare which a rigid economy left to her, and to the cure of their maladies the knowledge she had acquired in medicine.

She was fetched from three and four leagues' distance to visit a sick person.

On Sunday the steps of her court-yard were covered with invalids, who came to seek relief, or convalescents, who came to bring her proofs of their gratitude; baskets of chestnuts, goats' milk cheeses, or apples from their orchards.

She was delighted at finding the country people grateful and sensible of kindness.