new to them, for this wondering suggests a certain astonishment?
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
During her temptations against faith
she wrote: "I strive to work by faith
though bereft of its consolations. I
have made more acts of Faith in this
last year than during all the rest of my
life.
"On each fresh occasion of combat, when the enemy desires to challenge me, I conduct myself valiantly: knowing that to fight a duel is an unworthy act, I turn my back upon the adversary without ever looking him in the face; then I run to my Jesus and tell Him I am ready to shed every drop of blood in testimony of my belief that there is a Heaven, I tell Him I am glad to be unable to contemplate, while on earth, with the eyes of the soul, the beautiful Heaven that awaits me so He will deign to open it for eternity to poor unbelievers."
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. IX
