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In this manner the girl grew up as if watched over and helped by a living presence, trying always to do nothing that could grieve or annoy her sainted mother. Her greatest pleasure was to look into the mirror and feel that she could truthfully say: “Mother, today I have been as you wished that I should be.”
After a time the father observed that his daughter looked lovingly into the mirror every morning and every evening, and appeared to converse with it. Wondering, he asked her the cause of her strange behavior. The girl replied:
“Father, I look every day into the glass to see my dear mother and to speak with her.”
She then related to him the last wishes of her dying mother, and assured him that she had never failed to comply with them.
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