Ans. Yes, sir.
Doctor. When at ease in your mind during that disease, were you not used to pray to the saints, particularly to St. Anne and St. Philomene?
Ans. Yes, sir.
Doctor. When you considered that death was very near (and it was indeed) when you had heard my imprudent sentence that you had only a few minutes to live, were you not taken suddenly by such a fear of death as you never felt before?
Ans. Yes, sir.
Doctor. Did you not then make a great effort to repel death from you?
Ans. Yes, sir.
Doctor. Do you know that you are a man of an exceedingly strong will, and that very few men can resist you when you want to do something? Do you not know that your will is such an exceptional power that mountains of difficulties have disappeared before you, here in Quebec? Have you not seen even me, with many others, yielding to your will almost in spite of ourselves, to do what you wanted?
With a smile, I answered, “Yes, sir.”
Doctor. Do you not know that the will, or if you like it better, the soul, has a real, mysterious, and sometimes an irresistible, power over the body, to silence its passions, calm its sufferings, and really heal its diseases, particularly when they are of a nervous nature, as in all cases of fever?