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When, at the beginning of our conversation, you spoke to me of the hopes which remained to you, I understood my heart was broken, for I was to part with you forever that I was to see you shut yourself up in a cloister to see you descend living to a tomb. Is it your wish to enter a convent?" "Father!" "My child, is this true?"
He had the courage to deprive himself of the presence of the two beings whom he adored, to spare them the humiliation of an American school, and he sent them after their twelfth year to England, the boy to the Jesuits of Beaumont, the girl to the convent of the Sacred Heart, at Roehampton.
The 22 nuns before referred to live at this convent. They belong to the order of "Faithful Companions;" they lead quiet, industrious lives have no Saurin-Starr difficulties, and appear to be contented. At the convent there are 33 pupils some from a distance, others belonging the town.
He stayed not for reply: he hurried on, descended to the court, flung himself on his barb, and, with a small and saddened train, passed through the gate which we yet survey, by a blackened and crumbling tower overgrown with vines and ivy; thence, amidst gardens, now appertaining to the convent of the victor faith, he took his mournful and unwitnessed way.
Manisty descended to the walled garden, and walked up and down there smoking, a prey to disagreeable thoughts. After half an hour or so Reggie came down to the convent gate to look out for the ricketty diligence which had undertaken to bring his bag from Orvieto. Here he was overtaken by Lucy Foster, who seemed to have hurried after him. 'How do you do, Mr.
"It would be better, James, that Peter got her than that she should stay in a convent." "I wouldn't say that," said James. "You see," said his father, "she did not go into the convent because she had a calling, but because she was crossed in love." And after another long while James said, "It is a bitter dose, I am thinking, father, but you must go and tell her that Peter has left Maynooth."
And this time the star eyes gave to me the quick sympathy for which I had prayed before the Virgin with the Infant in her arms in the little chapel of the old convent just before we had to flee from the shells, leaving my father to the Sisters to bury after the enemy had come. I think my eyes did tell that tale to his and the tears ached in my throat.
If any of the English Barons remembered the murdered Arthur's sister, Eleanor the fair maid of Brittany, shut up in her convent at Bristol, none among them spoke of her now, or maintained her right to the Crown.
They had been informed of our excursion to the Wells, and that they might there thank the French General for the protection granted to their caravans and their trade with Egypt. On the 19th of December, before his departure from Suez, Bonaparte signed a sort of safeguard, or exemption from duties, for the convent of Mount Sinai.
She was dust long ago." From time to time there had fallen little fitful showers during the morning. Now as the wedding-journeyers passed out of the convent gate the rain dropped soft and thin, and the gray clouds that floated through the sky so swiftly were as far-seen Gray Sisters in flight for heaven.
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