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"I'm sure, Madame, I don't know why any girl should try to make herself look ugly, if God has made her as beautiful as Mademoiselle Agatha." "And you think then Mademoiselle de Lescure is not fit for a nun at all?" "Oh, Madame, we all know she is going to be married immediately to the finest, handsomest, most noble young nobleman in all Poitou. Oh!
Not only had she to entertain visitors in the convent, but often the business of the house took her away upon journeys and these offered many opportunities for hobnobbing with her neighbours. Sometimes she had to go to London to see after a law-suit and that was a great excursion with another nun, or perhaps two, and a priest and several yeomen to look after her.
The enduring of this habit will have a confirming influence on her purposes, and help to keep her up to them. It is like the uniform to the soldier or the veil to the nun a sign of separation and devotion. It is difficult in this age to keep any historic consciousness, any proper relations to the past.
The nuns chatted of those they had left behind, and many a one spoke of a happy meeting at home once more; but an elderly nun put a stop to this, saying that it was a sin to anticipate the ways of God's mercy, or, when His help was still so sorely needed, to speak as though He had already bestowed it.
Colville took the Piazza San Marco in on his way to Palazzo Pinti on the morning when he had made up his mind to go there, and he stood at the window looking out with the old man, when some more maskers passed through the place two young fellows in old Florentine dress, with a third habited as a nun. "Ah," said the old man gently, "I wish they hadn't introduced the nun!
This is the letter that I wrote to my adorable nun: "I gave C C the key of your casino, to be returned to you, my own charming friend, because I believed myself trifled with and despised, of malice aforethought, by the woman I worship. In my error I thought myself unworthy of presenting myself before your eyes, and, in spite of love, horror made me shudder.
"An awful row, indeed," thought the Colonel, "to bring Mac to that;" but the circumstances had little interest for him, beside the fact that his pardner would be off to Dawson in a few minutes, leaving him behind and caring "not a sou markee." Mac was still at Holy Cross. He had seen a woman there "calls herself a nun evidently swallows those priests whole. Kind of mad, believes it all.
One of Jacqueline's first walks, after she had recovered, was to see her cousin Giselle at her convent. She did not seek this friend's society when she was happy and in a humor for amusement, for she thought her a little straightlaced, or, as she said, too like a nun; but nobody could condole or sympathize with a friend in trouble like Giselle.
A shower had passed that way an hour before, and the spirit of growing things seemed to fill the air with a voiceless music. Just at sunset the stage from the north put me down in front of St. Ann's Academy in the little Osage Mission village on the Neosho. A tall nun, with commanding figure and dignified bearing, left the church steps across the road and came slowly toward me.
He pointed to an overturned tent which his servants were trying to prop, and beside which an aged Hebrew, his father Elishama, wrapped in cloth, sat in the chair in which he was carried by bearers. Nun hastily shouted a few words and led Ephraim toward him.
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