This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... fugitives were able to proceed to the place of their destination, La Flechere, he should bring them to rest one day at Jeanvilliers, --of which castle, the lady, though a catholic, was kind, and abhorred alike the spirit of her infatuated confraternity, and the persecution of which thev were guilty. The old Countess, also, haa two orphan grandchildren, whom she loved exceedingly, and their desire to see the two young people at Marco's cottage, whose mother and baby brother had died in consequence of the persecution, was great. And uiey wondered what kind of a religion it could be, which one set of people thought so good that they were willing to die for it; and which another thought so bad, as to be ready to kill those who professed it. When Gabrielle was quite restored to health, old Marco and his hospitable family at last Consented to let their young guests depart. Their desire of rejoining, as they hoped, their only surviving parent, was, as may easily be imagined, great beyond expression, --and much as the good peasants of the Alps would have wished to detain the children till it could be ascertained where that beloved parent was, they nevertheless felt that they might perhaps appear cruel, in asking them to prolong their stay, now that the beautiful season of the year, and the state of the roads, admitted of their travelling, not only with ease, but delight. Accordingly, the day of their departure arrived, when, after a stay of nearly three months, in which time the Lord had caused the pious peasants to treat these orphans as their own children, --and in which, through the blessing of God upon the reading of Hubert's Bible, many youthful individuals of the hamlet were "asking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward."--Hubert and...