the nunnery where she resided; and are often read to the young
religious, in order to inspire them with good resolutions and
sentiments of virtue. It so happened that after Constantia had
lived about ten years in the cloister, a violent fever broke out in
the place, which swept away great multitudes, and among others
Theodosius. Upon his death-bed he sent his benediction in a very
moving manner to Constantia, who at that time was herself so far
gone in the same fatal distemper that she lay delirious. Upon the
interval which generally precedes death in sickness of this nature,
the abbess, finding that the physicians had given her over, told her
that Theodosius had just gone before her, and that he had sent her
his benediction in his last moments. Constantia received it with
pleasure. "And now," says she, "if I do not ask anything improper,
let me be buried by Theodosius. My vow reaches no further than the
grave; what I ask is, I hope, no violation of it." She died soon
after, and was interred according to her request.

The tombs are still to be seen, with a short Latin inscription over
them to the following purpose:-

"Here lie the bodies of Father Francis and Sister Constance. They
were lovely in their lives, and in their death they were not
divided."



GOOD NATURE.