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guarded and wonderfully strengthened by God,
I lay as if
my whole
continually praying, near the wheel, on which
world reposed. "
As
often as a sigh broke from
Eudolph,
was a dagger
it
my
to
the breast of
heart ; but
I
my
consoled
myself with the hope that after a short time of suffering, the eternal joys of heaven would be my portion, and this gave me courage to suffer I knew, too, for whom 1 suf;
fered, I
and
endured "
this
gave
to the
me
strength in the combat, so that
very last moment.
Though Wart had
at first so earnestly
not to increase his agonies by
thanked
me
prayers to
and "
it
as much for God he found
was a comfort
How the
my
begged
presence, yet he
him
me now
my
not having
left
consolation
and refreshment,
to his soul
when
I
;
in
prayed.
morning and noon were spent, permit me to pass over in silence. A few hours before evening, Eudolph moved his head for the last time 1 He murmured, very faintly, raised myself up to him. last dreadful
;
but with smiling love '
Gertrude, this
my
knees
I
upon
is fidelity till
thanked
God
his
death
lips, '
words,
these
and expired.
for the grace
On
which he had
given me, to remain faithful to the end."
COURAGE AND FIDELITY OF BONA LONGABAKBA. " Whoever has gained the affections of a woman, succeed in any enterprise wherein she assists him."
is
sure to
— Gall.
Bona Longabarba was a who lived about a.d. 1568.
female warrior of Lombardy,
This lady was married to Bmnorius Pamensis, a worthy and renowned soldier, and not only mixed in the exercises of the chase and hunting, but attended her husband in
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all
his warlike