The princess; or The Bguine . uffering, to our gates. Belgium had alwaysher blesses, voyez-vous ! Well, here he was : the Sisters of showed the very ward and bed where he lay; for we Be-guines do duty here for sweet Jesuss sake. The hospital, by right,is served by the Soeurs Augustines; but they are now too few andscattered to do duty. John Hemlink, rest his soul! recoveredslowly, and was wont to sit under that portico where you passedthe patients; and he there began to draw little miniatures, andexecuted that shrine of St. Ursula, which people came far and nearto see, till our lit
The princess; or The Bguine . uffering, to our gates. Belgium had alwaysher blesses, voyez-vous ! Well, here he was : the Sisters of showed the very ward and bed where he lay; for we Be-guines do duty here for sweet Jesuss sake. The hospital, by right,is served by the Soeurs Augustines; but they are now too few andscattered to do duty. John Hemlink, rest his soul! recoveredslowly, and was wont to sit under that portico where you passedthe patients; and he there began to draw little miniatures, andexecuted that shrine of St. Ursula, which people came far and nearto see, till our little chapel became another Loretto. Who butJohn Hemlink now ! The town grew proud of him, and the ma-gistrates gave him his conge; and it was in gratitude for the charityhe received here, that he painted this picture for our hall. Andhere, messieurs, he is himself— quel Joli garcon! 71 She drewaside a curtain as she spoke, and the handsome head and figure ofthe painter, in the dress of the patients of the hospital, stood out. Juglar (V. H.). Memling blesse est recueilli par les moines de Vhospice de Saint-Jeana Bruges. — Memling wounded and succoured by the monks of St-Johns hospital at Bruges. H. i»yo. — L- om,85. 48
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