CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. 



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return to herself. She instantly obeyed ; and then 

 we all recommended ourselves, and our absent 

 friends, to a remembrance in her prayers. She 

 spoke not one word, so I could not learn the tone 

 of her voice. 



Just at this time she made a sign to the Father 

 Confessor to hand her a box, which was upon a 

 little table near the window. There happened to 

 be two boxes on it, and by mistake, he gave her 

 the wrong one. On observing this she shewed, by 

 a sign, that it was the other box which she wanted, 

 and then the good Father immediately gave it to 

 her. The Ecstatica took two holy prints out of it, 

 and presented them to Miss Edmonstone ; then, 

 three to Miss Helen ; two to myself ; and two to 

 each of our servants. 



During our interview, which lasted over twenty 

 minutes, she had relapsed into ecstacy several 

 times, and was as often recalled from it by the 

 intervention of her Father Confessor. 



There was a Barbadoes dove in a cage at the 

 farthest end of the room. I conjectured that it 

 was the property of her female attendant ; or, 

 perhaps, that it was kept in the room as an 

 emblem of the Ecstatica's innocence and purity. A 

 few ripe apples were on the window board; and 

 two or three small rolls of bread upon a little table 

 near it, 



