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THE POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH.

sonal care of the throng of children, some of them infants in arms, their education, the nursing of the sick, the tending
Two Collecting Sisters.
of the frequent deathbeds, and that special work which these Nuns share with very few other Communities—the Quest. And what the Quest implies of detailed and minute labour can be but vaguely imagined by those who have not had to pick over and classify and work at the baskets of fragments that remain from the daily breaking of bread in the great consumption of London at its dinner. Everything here is made of scraps, and yet nothing is made of