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 Another time: "You have had a great many trials today."

"Yes, but seeing that I love them! I love everything the good God sends me."

Again, when some one said to her: "It is dreadful—all you are suffering."

"No, it is not dreadful; could a little Victim of Love find anything dreadful that her Spouse sends her? He gives me at each moment what I can bear; not more; and the minute He increases my sufferings He also augments my fortitude.

"Yet I could never ask for greater sufferings, for I am too little; they would be my own—my own choosing, then I should have to bear them by myself, and I have never been able to do anything all alone."

During her long and painful agony she exclaimed: "The chalice is full to