The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-12-28
position were known to him!' he knew
not what to answer.

r position were known to him?' he knew
not what to answer.
The good missionary explained to Mad.
J anne Godin, after she was somewhat re.
cuited from her late sufferings, the fright
, full length of the way, the labors and
5 dangers of her journey yet to come, and
tried hard to induce her to alter her in
tention and return to Rio Bambas, her
former residence, instead of setting forth
to encounter a new series Of disappoint-
ments and perils. He promised. in that
} case. to convey her safely and with com
fort But the heroic woman rejected the
proposal with immovable 6rmness. "God
who had so wonderfully protected her SO
far" she said, "would have her in his
keeping for the remainder of her way
She had but one wish remaining, and
that was to be reunited to her husband
and she knew no danger terrible enough
to induce her to give up this one ruling
desire of her heart"
The missionary therefore had boat
got ready to carry her to the Portuguese
vessel. The Governor of Omaguas furn-
ished the boat and supplied it we'll with
provisions; and that the commander of
the Portuguese galliot might be inform
ed of her approach, he sent a smaller
boat, with provisions, and two soldiers by
land along the banks of the river, and
betook himself to Loreto, where the gal
liot had been so long lying, and there he
waited till Madame Godin arrived.
She suffered still severely from the
injuries which she had sustained during
her wanderings in the wilderness. Par
ticularly the thumb of one hand, in which
she had thrust thorn, which they had
not been able to get out, was in a bad
condition. The bone itself was become
carious and she found it necessary to have
the flesh cut open to allow fragments Of
the bone to come out. As for the rest
she experienced from the commander of
the Portuguese vessel all possible kind
ness, and reached the mouth the Anna
zon river without any further mis- -adven-
ture.
Mr.. Godin, who still continued at Oya-
pock, the same place where on account
of sickness he had been obliged to stop,
was no sooner informed of the approach
of his wife, than he went on board ves-
sci and coasted along the shore till he
met the galliot. The JOY Of again meet
ing, after separation of twenty years,
and after so many calamities undergone,
was, as may well be supposed, on both
sides, indescribably great. Their reuni-
on seemed like a resurrection from the
dead, since both Of them had more than
once given up all hope of ever seeing the
other in this life.
The happy husband now conveyed his
wife to Oyapock, and thence to Cayenne
whence they departed on their return to
France, in company with the venerable
Mr.. De Grandmaison. Madame Godin
remained, however, continually sad, not
withstanding her present ample cause for
JOY, and every endeavor to raise her spir-
its was fruitless; SO deep and inextinguish-
able an impression had the terrible suf-
fering she had undergone made upon her
mind. She spoke unwillingly of all that
she had suffered, and even her husband
found out with difficulty and by little and
little the circumstances which we have
narrated, taken from accounts under his
own hand. He thought he could thereby
infer that she had kept to herself, to spare
his feelings, many circumstances Of dis
tressiDg nature, which she herself prefer
red to forget. Her heart, too, was, by
reason of her sufferings, SO attuned to
pity and forbearance, that her compassion
even extended to the base and wicked
men who had treated her with such in
justice. She would therefore add moth
ing to induce her husband to invoke the
vengeance of the law against the faithless
Tristan, the first cause of all her misfor-
tunes, who had converted to his own use
many thousand dollars worth of proper
ty which had been entrusted to him
She even had allowed herself to be pur-
suaded to take on board the boat from
Omaguas down, for second time, the
mean -souled Mr.. r.
So true is it that adversely and suffer-
ing do fulfil the useful purpose of render
ing the human heart tender, placable and
indulgent.