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 Rachel went to Egypt, as a forlorn hope, a few months before her death. She had sent directions for the sale of her furniture, and of the small hotel in which she had resided. The whole world crowded to see the wonderful house of which they had heard so much, and the following account, given by an Englishman, of the auction of her goods, contains an allusion to the rosary, and shows the strange mixture of inconsistency that reigned in her surroundings as in her opinions and convictions:—

Rachel herself, in a letter written on her return