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""""vehemently"12 fME CURri OF AHS.hot, and the two children stopped in a narrow lane to restin the shade. Their childish talk now became moreintimate.I think,"said Jean Marie,that we two should geton very well together.""Yes,"said Marion ;and if our parents like, wecan marry."Oh, no, no exclaimed Jean Marie !";for me never ! Do not let us talk of it ; never let ustalk of it again."*Had that child already heard the voice of the HolyGhost, revealing to him the joy of sacrifice, the glory ofvirginity, and the emptiness and nothingness of all earthlythings as compared with invisible blessings ? Certain itis that, even from that early age, all his thoughts andemotions seem to have been concentrated in the desire toserve God and to unite himself to Him alone.Next to God, Jean Marie loved the poor. The unbounded charity, which was one day to be identifiedwith his very life, already inflamed his young heart.With him the heart seems to have outgrown and absorbed the other faculties ; for he was in no way remarkable at this time for graces of mind or gifts of intellect.We have a touching picture of the hospitality of thatof whom thepoor farmhouse to the homeless beggars,country was full. At nightfall they would present themselves, sometimes twenty at a time, and were all sure ofa resting place in the grange. In the winter, MatthieuVianney took care to have a large sparkling fire of fagotskindled in the kitchen to warm them. Then a huge potof potatoes was placed upon the hearth, which the children* Marion Vincent, who is still living in a house close to that ofthe Vianneys, told this childish incident herself to M. Monnin.