Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will see-all the world will love me." Thus spoke the little French girl who, soon after her death in 1897, became known to all the world as "The Little Flower of Jesus." Beatified in 1923-the Roman Catholic officials waiving the custom that 50 years must elapse before a "cause" is begun-she was canonized in 1925 as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...
...many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there was tangible result of this giving. Dedicated was the crypt of a great basilica which is to rise, with Romanesque dome and tower...
...absent-minded ways and her mother, whose sole concern is marrying her daughters well, are of no help. Hanny, her elder sister, is infatuated with a handsome rascal, Warmelo. Tina watches Hanny's miseries, her mother's maneuvers with widening, saddening eyes. Suddenly she is in love herself. When Alf Ten Berge takes her out on the dunes, tries to consummate their love, she is terrified, runs home. Alf marries another girl for spite...
...takes up with Heloma, a middle-aged professor who loves her well but bookishly. She tries her best to love him back, they are engaged; but a chance conversation with a married man shows her that it was Alf, for all his terrifying lovemaking, whom she really loved. Alf was too wild, Heloma is too tame: she takes up spinsterhood...
...little of that is enough for her. She wants children, marries a wealthy cousin Ben Terwogt. The children come, but not happiness. On a summer holiday she runs into Alf. He declares that she had been his only love. Once more she has a chance, but, though it breaks her heart, she turns it down. In the masquerade of Delft society she has chosen her own false face, and now must live...