The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret BourgeoisAnonymous
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The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois
Anonymous
Bourgeoys, Marguerite, Saint, 1620-1700
out her letters of recommendation, and, leaving a few at the Seminary,
set out to find the relatives of Messrs. Perrot and de Maisonneuve. She
first called at the address given in M. Perrot's letter. As her
appearance was not very presentable, after a long, and not over-clean
voyage, she met with a very cool reception. However, when her
fashionable entertainers read the letter (the contents of which she did,
not know), they soon changed contempt into respect, as M. Perrot had
requested them to receive her as they would receive himself, assuring
them that in Canada she was regarded as a little saint. She was
consequently invited to dinner, which she gladly accepted, as she was
much in need of it at the moment, but their ceremonious attentions did
not agree with her spirit of mortification and humility, and she
absolutely refused to remain over-night, although they pressed her quite
warmly to do so. She next visited M. de Maisonneuve, arriving at a very
late hour, as it was in the suburbs of the city. It is impossible to
express the joy that this great servant of God experienced on seeing her
again. He actually _ran_ to meet her and cordially offered the
hospitality of a little house he had just erected in one corner of his
garden, telling her that he had it made to look like an Indian cabin,
expecting some one from Canada might call who would be pleased to see
anything to remind them of home, and her visit fulfilled his
presentiment. She gratefully accepted the kind offer, and lodged there
during her stay in Paris. This tried and life-long friend then took
charge of her affairs, and rendered her the most important services. A
few days after, as they were talking about old times in Ville-Marie, he
desired to show her some papers, and laying his hand by chance on a
shelf of the library, took down a paper, which proved to be the
_identical note for 132 livres_, that she had believed lost. After the
death of M. Blondel, it had been placed for safe-keeping in the hands of
M. de Maisonneuve. She received it very gratefully, of course, but not
at all avariciously. Here the memoirs of Sister Bourgeois become
irregular, in both dates and events, which were perhaps so crowded that
she could not devote time to take note of them in the order of
occurrence, so we will content ourselves by relating a few incidents of
traditional report before again returning to the authentic manuscripts.
At the time of her second return to Montreal, with the six new subjects
that M. de Laval received in France, she found it necessary to secure
the services of an honest, robust man, who would be willing to work for
them, when necessary, during their travels. She accordingly made a
contract with a man named Louis Frin, whom she also hoped to employ in
teaching a boy's school in Montreal, in place of the young man that died
after his arrival in Canada. This Louis Frin became afterwards Brother
Charon, and eventually was known as Brother Louis. Her next care was to
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