Was not the eternal illusion of happiness rising once more amidst tears and unconscious falsehoods?
Poor, poor Bernadette! All waxed indignant at the thought of the persecutions which she had endured in defence of her faith.
Then Pierre, resuming his story, related all that the child had had to suffer.

After being questioned by the Commissary she had to appear before the judges of the local tribunal.

The entire magistracy pursued her, and endeavoured to wring a retractation from her.

But the obstinacy of her dream was stronger than the common sense of all the civil authorities put together.

Two doctors who were sent by the Prefect to make a careful examination of the girl came, as all doctors would have done, to the honest opinion that it was a case of nervous trouble, of which the asthma was a sure sign, and which, in certain circumstances, might have induced visions.