Adelaide Saucier

The young lady was twenty-four years of age, handsome, tall and muscular; with some education and much amia- bility and sweetness of disposition. M. Saucier was then fifty-two years old — a little passed the middle period of life, — but in the prime of vigorous manhood.

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On July 35th, 1726, the event occurred to which they had looked forward with glowing expectations, not unmixed, very naturally, with feelings of grave anxiety. On that day a son was born to them ; and, for a short time it seemed that heaven had smiled upon them in the realization of their fondest wishes.

The young mother had received the congratulations of her delighted husband and sympathetic friends and relatives around her; and had impressed on her infant's lips an impassioned kiss, when she was suddenly seized with horrible, agonizing convulsions, that continued at short intervals, baffhng the skill of able physicians, and unceasing efforts of heroic nurses, until death mercifully relieved her of her suffering.