And when they took her out she was so pale that they laid her on the ground, thinking that it was certainly all over with her at last.

But, all at once, colour came back to her cheeks, her eyes opened, and she drew a long breath.

She was cured; she dressed herself without any help and made a good meal after she had been to the Grotto to thank the Blessed Virgin.

There! there's no gainsaying it, that was a real case of phthisis, completely cured as though by medicine!" Thereupon Brother Isidore in his turn wished to speak; but he was unable to do so at any length, and could only with difficulty manage to say to his sister: "Marthe, tell them the story of Sister Dorothee which the priest of Saint-Sauveur related to us." "Sister Dorothee," began the peasant girl in an awkward way, "felt her leg quite numbed when she got up one morning, and from that time she lost the use of it, for it got as cold and as heavy as a stone.

Besides which she felt a great pain in the back.