The Jew, who professed complete infidelity, meantime was looking at the pictures.

But M.de Bussieres, when his business was done, found him prostrate on the pavement in front of a picture of the Madonna.

The Jew on coming to himself declared that the Virgin had stepped from her frame, and addressed him, with the result, as he said, that having fallen to the ground an infidel, he rose a convinced Christian! Mademoiselle D'Henin writes in a tone which indicates small belief in the miracle, but seems to accept as certain the further facts, that the convert gave all he possessed to the Church and became a monk.
I have recently--even while transcribing these extracts from her letters--heard of the death, within the last few years, of the writer of them.

She died in England, I am told, and unmarried.

Her sympathies and affections were always strongly turned to her mother's country, as indeed may be in some degree inferred from even those passages of her letters which have been given.