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"Come, my boy," said the priest, taking the mystified Jacob by the hand; "say good-by to your benefactors." But Jacob, upon whom the sombre-robed, grim-visaged stranger did not make a favorable impression, broke from his hold and took refuge in the skirts of the Countess, as the most compassionate of the company. "Don't let them take me away," he sobbed. "Let me remain with you."
The sombre-robed monks were in the choir, the organ rolling out its deep notes in accompaniment to the plain song of the Venite exultemus, which then, as now, preceded the psalms for the day. Then came the hymn: Lo night and clouds and darkness wrap The world in dark array; The morning dawns, the sun breaks in, Hence, hence, ye shades away ! "Come, Hubert, dear son, worthy of thy sainted mother.
The bell tolled the end of vespers, and the sombre-robed nuns filed out of the chapel to go about their evening duties. Little Sister Josepha's work was to attend to the household lamps, but there must have been as much oil spilled upon the table to-night as was put in the vessels.
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