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"You understand English?" was the prefatory question. "A little." Why, mademoiselle, is it possible that anybody with a grain of rationality should feel enthusiasm about a mere name, and that name England? I thought you were a lady-abbess five minutes ago, and respected you accordingly; and now I see you are a sort of Swiss sibyl, with high Tory and high Church principles!"

We go on from cell to cell, take away the clothes of one sister after another, and lastly those of the lady-abbess herself. Then I sound my whistle, and my fellows outside begin to storm and halloo as if doomsday was at hand, and away they rush with the devil's own uproar into the cells of the sisters! Ha, ha, ha!

The next morning the priest returned on board the ship, with the intelligence that he had obtained a reception for Amine in the Ursuline convent, the abbess of which establishment he was acquainted with; and, before Amine went on shore, he cautioned her that the lady-abbess was a strict woman, and would be pleased if she conformed, as much as possible, to the rules of the convent; that this convent only received young persons of the highest and most wealthy families, and he trusted that she would be happy there.

I was beginning to give very short answers indeed to his questions, and was already meditating a foray through the rest of the house, when the door opened slowly and a lady-abbess entered.

Her water-colour sketches were on her uncle's walls: the beautiful in nature claimed and absorbed her. She dressed with a pretty rigour, a lovely simplicity, picturesque of the nunnery. She looked indeed a high-born young lady-abbess. 'It's a dusty game for ladies, Dacier said, abhorring the women defiled by it.

George and all the gentlemen say that she is the only really beautiful woman they ever saw." "Tastes differ," said Rose with a shrug. "I don't think so. She is too pale, and proud, and cold, and too far up in the clouds altogether. She ought to go and be a nun; she would make a splendid lady-abbess." "She will make a splendid Mrs. Stanford." "Who?" said Mr. Stanford himself, sauntering in.

The next morning the priest returned on board the ship, with the intelligence that he had obtained a reception for Amine in the Ursuline convent, the abbess of which establishment he was acquainted with; and before Amine went on shore, he cautioned her that the lady-abbess was a strict woman, and would be pleased if she conformed as much as possible to the rules of the convent; that this convent only received young persons of the highest and most wealthy families, and he trusted that she would be happy there.

"By what road shall I meet her?" "There are two roads: we generally use the river-road." "To-night? I will go to meet her. By the river-road, you say?" "Yea." "And if I do not meet her?" "If thou dost not meet her," said the lady-abbess, answering calmly, "it will be because she is detained on the road." I had to believe her, and yet I was very skeptical.

I had often driven over there with Aunt Sloman: indeed, Sophia that's the one you saw is a great friend of Aunt Maria's." "So the lady-abbess confessed, did she?" I asked with some curiosity. "Yes: she said you were rudely inquisitive; but she excused you as unfamiliar with Shaker ways." "And were you really at Watervliet?" "Yes, but don't be in a hurry: we'll come to that presently.

"By what road shall I meet her?" "There are two roads: we generally use the river-road." "To-night? I will go to meet her. By the river-road, you say?" "Yea." "And if I do not meet her?" "If thou dost not meet her," said the lady-abbess, answering calmly, "it will be because she is detained on the road." I had to believe her, and yet I was very skeptical.