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Updated: June 19, 2025
What had she in common with Maria Addolorata, except that she was born a princess and a Braccio? Of what use was it to be a princess by birth, like a dozen or more of the sisters, or even a noble, like all the others? Of what use or advantage could anything be, where liberty was not?
He trembled a little, and as he looked upward, two dreadful tears the tears of the strong that are as blood welled from his eyes and trickled down upon his cheeks. "Maria Addolorata!" he whispered. FRANCESCA had half risen from her seat when she had seen that Lord Redin did not hear her voice, calling to him.
They even made you believe that the management of two or three score suffering women was government and power. It seemed a great thing to be abbess, did it not?" Maria Addolorata bent her veiled head slowly twice or three times, in a heavy-hearted way.
Her eyes were turned up, and her jaw had dropped. Maria Addolorata believed that all was over. "She is dead," she said. "Let us leave her in peace." It is a very ancient custom among Italians to withdraw as soon as a dying person is unconscious, if not even before the supreme moment. "She will probably live through this," answered Dalrymple, shaking his head.
So the matter was settled. Vol. SISTER MARIA ADDOLORATA sat by the open door of her cell, looking across the stone parapet of her little balcony, and watching the changing richness of the western sky, as the sun went down far out of sight behind the mountains.
And with the thought of him came also jealousy of Maria Addolorata, and another hatred which was deeper and stronger and more vengeful than any she owed Sor Tommaso. She felt, rather than understood, that Dalrymple loved the nun with all his heart.
On the whole, considering the circumstances, she admitted that Maria Addolorata had accepted the veil with sufficient outward grace, though without any vocation, and she took it for granted that with such opportunities the girl must slowly develop into an abbess not unlike her predecessors.
For there was in it the passion of the woman, and the passionate remorse of the nun, the towering love of Maria Braccio, woman and princess, and the deep despair of Maria Addolorata, nun and sinner, unfaithful spouse of the Lord Christ, accused and self-accusing, self-wronged, self-judged, but condemned of God and foretasting the ultimate tragedy that is eternal the tragedy of supreme hell.
In less than a quarter of an hour he had made up his mind that if Maria Addolorata repented at a late hour and refused to leave the convent, he would make an attempt to carry her away by force. If he failed, and found himself shut off from all possibility of intercourse with her, life would not be worth living, and he would throw it away.
He meant, if it were possible, to take Maria Addolorata on board of the English man-of-war at Civita Vecchia within twenty-four hours. So far as the carrying off of a nun was concerned, he would be safe on the ship; but if he were accused of murder, no matter how falsely, the captain would have a right to refuse his protection, even though he was Dalrymple's friend.
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