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Again, he inquired whether, if he were to leave Villette, and go far away, I should be sorry; and I dropped Corneille, and made no reply. "Petite soeur," said he; "how long could you remember me if we were separated?" "That, Monsieur, I can never tell, because I do not know how long it will be before I shall cease to remember everything earthly."
There is not another man that could have been even thought of for such a thing. I shall get something great for it some day. And let it come soon, he mumbled. 'Time passes in this country as quick as anywhere else. "This, soeur cherie, is my companion in the great escape for the sake of the great cause.
My husband conveyed it to his friend M. Schmitt in the following letter: "J'ai recu ces jours-ci la triste nouvelle que mon cousin le pretre anglican que j'aimais comme un frere, a succombe a une assez longue maladie. Ce qu'il y a de plus penible c'est la position de sa soeur qui s'etait entierement devouee a lui et a la paroisse.
You t'ink ma soeur goin' hongry to feed loafer' lak you?" Bushy gray tails began to stir, the heads came farther forward, there was a most unmannerly licking of chops. "By Gar! You sound lak' miner-man eatin' soup. Wat for you'spect nice grub? You don' work none." 'Poleon removed a layer of fat, divided it, and tossed a portion to each animal.
"It is true, then," cried Soeur Lucie, "what I heard Soeur Marie saying that our sainted mother had bequeathed her to the care of the convent, and left directions that she is to take the veil as soon as she is old enough." "Yes, it is true enough, and, as I was saying, all is no doubt for the best; otherwise it is really a great charge for us to have a child of that age on our hands to bring up."
"Madame may occupy the house," said ma Soeur, "by paying five hundred francs a year, by observing every fast and feast of the Church, by attending either matins or vespers every day, and by attending confession and partaking of the holy sacrament every month." Madame is a zealous Catholic, therefore the terms, although peculiar, did not seem too severe.
Then there is the Mère Supérieure, of thin, æsthetic face, who comes with a gentle word of the "Faith" for each one; the austere Soeur Félicité, who counts the cups and searches your soul and brings in hot coffee and a steaming ragoût; and the pretty, young Soeur Monique, with her uplifted face, who cannot conceal a shy admiration for big, blond Henri who rails at everything and is as lovable as a baby.
When she went abroad with her family, she used her spare time so well that there was hardly a great hospital in Europe with which she was not acquainted; hardly a great city whose shims she had not passed through. She managed to spend some days in a convent school in Rome, and some weeks as a 'Soeur de Charite' in Paris.
I heard it as I came back. You're quite a famous character in Dawson to- night, 'Poleon dear, what with this and with Frenchman's Hill." "Ho! Dat Frenchman' Hill," the man broke out, hurriedly. "It's beeg s'prise for us, eh? Pierce told you 'bout dat?" "Pierce?" The girl shook her head vaguely. "You 'member I stake two claim', one for you, one for me. By golly! ma soeur, you're millionaire."
Gerald Vernor has changed my life for always. What might have been, now can never be." He stood still a moment, looking full at her. It was wonderful how resolute and firm and yet brave and gentle too those merry brown eyes of his could become. Soeur Angélique sighed and shook her head softly. He stooped and kissed her, then turned away saying: "Now that chapter has been read through to the end.
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