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"The lady who rescued me was like her, and yet unlike," answered the poet, whose blood was roused by the subtle irony of his Superior's words.
An aged priest on the superior's right, laid a trembling hand on his arm. "Is it wise?" he asked, gently. "If thou frightenest the slave, he will not give thee correct information." "Thou art late to-night, father," said Lidia, reaching up her hardened little hands to caress affectionately his weatherworn cheek. "I was just going to bed."
"For," he went on, "if they had followed us they had certainly killed or taken us all." It is clear, therefore, that whatever Claverhouse might have done had he been left to himself, or whatever he may have wished to do what he did do was, in common with the rest of the army, to obey his superior's orders. Wodrow, iii. 93. Wodrow, iii. 107. Creichton, pp. 37-8.
At this point the Commissioner, half turning, signed to the troopers in his rear. Six or seven of them shook up their bridles and rode off, their scabbards clinking, to prevent the fugitive's escape. A howl of contempt went up from the crowd. The pink and white subaltern made what was almost a movement of the arm to intercept his superior's command.
"The lady who rescued me was like her, and yet unlike," answered the poet, whose blood was roused by the subtle irony of his Superior's words.
More visits to the imprisoned Nuns Their fears Others temporarily put into the Cells Reliques The Agnus Dei The Priests' private Hospital, or Holy Retreat Secret Rooms in the Eastern Wing Reports of Murders in the Convent The Superior's private Records Number of Nuns in the Convent Desire of Escape Urgent reason for it Plan Deliberation Attempt Success.
Early one morning on mischief bent, at the very peep of dawn, she had filched the garb of old sister Methtune and, supporting its bulky skirt, demurely walked into the Mother Superior's sanctified chamber. What that good woman thought as she raised herself up from her couch is not recorded even in her conscience, but Jane was sent in haste to replace the nun's attire.
Here Barre stopped, in order to confirm the testimony of the devil, assuring his hearers that the Sunday after the superior's deliverance from the second possession he along with Mignon and one of the sisters was sitting with her at supper, it being about seven o'clock in the evening, when she showed them drops of water on her arm, and no one could tell where they came from.
Angela would have been very much surprised if she could have known what was passing in the Mother Superior's mind, while she herself felt nothing but relief and satisfaction because her decision had now become irrevocable.
She had drawn down her veil, and was leaning her forehead against one of the iron bars which protected the window apparently in a mood of deep thought. When the abbess touched her, she started abruptly round then, pressing the superior's hand with convulsive violence, hurried from the room.
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