"You were willing to
be in the diocese of Geneva, and there they persecuted and rejected
you; I, who would gladly have you, cannot keep you." He wrote to Father
La Mothe that I should go in the spring, as soon as the weather would
permit. He was sorry to be obliged to let me go. Yet he still hoped to
have kept Father La Combe, which probably might have been, had not the
death of the Father-general given it another turn.

Here it was that I wrote upon the Apocalypse, and that there was given
me a greater certainty of all the persecutions of the most faithful
servants of God. Here also I was strongly moved to write to Madame De
Ch----. I did it with great simplicity; and what I wrote was like the
first foundation of what the Lord required of her, having been pleased
to make use of me to help to bring her into His ways, being one to whom
I am much united, and by her to others.

The Bishop of Verceil's friend, the Father-general of the Barnabites,
departed this life. As soon as he was dead, Father La Mothe wrote to
the Vicar-general who now held his place till another should be elected
renewing his request to have Father La Combe as an assistant. The
father, hearing that I was obliged on account of my indisposition to
return into France, sent an order to Father La Combe to return to
Paris, and to accompany me in my journey, as his doing that would
exempt their house at Paris, already poor, from the expenses of so long
a journey. Father La Combe, who did not penetrate the poison under this
fair outside, consented thereto; knowing it was my custom to have some
ecclesiastic with me in traveling. Father La Combe went off twelve days
before me, in order to transact some business, and to wait for me at
the passage over the mountains, as the place where I had most need of
an escort. I set off in Lent, the weather then being fine. It was a
sorrowful parting to the Bishop. I pitied him; he was so much affected
at losing both Father La Combe and me. He caused me to be attended, at
his own expense, as far as Turin, giving me a gentleman and one of his
ecclesiastics to accompany me.

As soon as the resolution was taken that Father La Combe should
accompany me, Father La Mothe reported everywhere "that he had been
obliged to do it, to make him return into France." He expatiated on the
attachment I had for Father La Combe, pretending to pity me. Upon this
everyone said that I ought to put myself under the direction of Father
La Mothe