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Soon letters began to descend upon the Carmelite Monastery at Lisieux. They came first one at a time, then ten, a hundred, a thousand. These letters told of the good that the departed girl-nun was doing in her Heaven on earth. There were stories, attested by doctors, priests and numerous other witnesses, of miracles: deadly diseases cured, sinners converted, moral and material help rendered, etc., etc. Never was such a bed of roses prepared for mankind...
...afraid her daughter wants to marry Christie--afraid not because of factional hate, but because Christie was her own childhood sweetheart. After many complications provided by Padna Collins, an Irish miser everything ends happily. Ellen marries Christie, Norah explains that she had long ago decided to become a nun, Corny Shakes hands with Christie, and the whole lot sails for Australia leaving Padna behind alone...
...beginning-the charm of the ingenuous, the pathos of the unaware. Here was a little lady looking at a country sick with dysentery, fever in its veins and the drums of war tapping. She ob- served with the keenness of a cocotte and wrote with the freshness of a nun. Thinking herself at a garden party- as indeed she was-she perfectly described the setting for one of the bloodiest trials of history. Great people walk absently through her pages. Emerson, whose soul she compares to a glass of water; Washington Irving, "a man with large, beautiful eyes" James Russell...
...Major F. B. Hurndall, seasoned and dexterous. Major Hurndall is, next to Luis Lacey, the strongest player on the visitors' side. During the War, Major Hurndall's ship was torpedoed off the Irish coast. He owes his life to a nun who, after doctors had declared him dead, rubbed his body for three hours with alcohol, restored...
...Homeric (White Star)- ex-Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison; E. G. Grace, President of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; Mrs. Molla Mallory; Lois Wilson, cinema actress; Rosamond Pinchot, famed nun...