Marie Heurtin Page #4

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will take over.

Live!

You must live!

Sister Marguerite,

I often think of you.

All day I think of you.

In the morning, when I wake,

I think of you.

At night, as I go to sleep,

I think of you.

When I learn something new,

I think of you.

So far I have learned

a great many things.

When you see me from heaven,

I hope you are proud of me.

A new little girl arrived today.

She's like me.

Deaf and blind.

But she's different from me

when I arrived.

She doesn't shout.

She doesn't move.

She smells nice.

She smells of bread.

She's waiting.

What is she waiting for?

She's waiting for the word.

The sisters will teach her,

like you taught me.

I shall help them.

I hope we'll become friends.

You and I were

more than friends.

Marie Heurtin lived for the rest

of her life at Notre-Dame de Larnay,

near Poitiers, where she died

July 22, 1921, aged 36.

An avid reader in Braille

and unbeatable at dominoes,

she never stopped studying

and was a guide

to young deaf-blind girls

who came to Larnay after her.

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