He was not cured, but simply declared that he came to Lourdes every year, and always went away feeling relieved.

Then came a lady, a countess, who was fearfully emaciated, and whose story was an extraordinary one.

Cured of tuberculosis by the Blessed Virgin, a first time, seven years previously, she had subsequently given birth to four children, and had then again fallen into consumption.

At present she was a morphinomaniac, but her first bath had already relieved her so much, that she proposed taking part in the torchlight procession that same evening with the twenty-seven members of her family whom she had brought with her to Lourdes.

Then there was a woman afflicted with nervous aphonia, who after months of absolute dumbness had just recovered her voice at the moment when the Blessed Sacrament went by at the head of the four o'clock procession.
"Gentlemen," declared Doctor Bonamy, affecting the graciousness of a _savant_ of extremely liberal views, "as you are aware, we do not draw any conclusions when a nervous affection is in question.