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This was admitted to be the most probable; and all concurred in believing the countess to be at the bottom of the intended sacrifice; for although a canoness, a dignitary of a religious order, she was pronounced little better than a devil incarnate. The Princess de Beauvau, a woman of generous spirit and intrepid zeal, suddenly rose from the chair in which she had been reclining.
"Precisely, Madame the coiffure Montgolfier," Germain at once replied, for he had looked into hat fashions lately. "Please describe it to me after dinner. All the world is speaking of it." "To the devil with coiffures!" Grancey whispered to the Canoness, and struck up a pæan of praise on the lean hound Aréthuse who led the hunt the previous day.
At her side stood her younger sister, a canoness, who was paying her a few days' visit an amiable lady with a very cheerful temperament. Ottilie von Goethe shared the violets with her. An easy conversation commenced.
She and the canoness, Mariana, would rather see a few young ensigns than all the staffs of the oldest Field-marshals! "The Queen often made signs to the Emperor to desist from thus exposing every member of his family, and seemed to feel mortified; but the more Her Majesty endeavoured to check his freedom, and make him silent, the more he enlarged upon the subject.
The Canoness de Rupelmonde conducted her niece to the prelate, to make her profession of self-devotion, and to utter the irrevocable vow. As the lovely novice knelt at his feet, the archbishop fixed on her his dark, beaming eyes, with a kind but earnest expression. "Sister!" said he, in the softest and most benevolent tone of voice, "What is your age?"
The first effect of this fine oration having been a little dissipated, objections broke out. One young and lovely canoness dared to maintain the rights of her freedom, even in the face of her most amiable enemy. Madame de Maintenon rushed to the succour of the Abbe of Saint Sulpice, and half by wheedling, half by tyranny, obtained the cloister and perpetual vows.
"Where is the Canoness?" she exclaimed. "She is gone, she was warned," he said. "You know there is danger, love?" "I see it," she answered. "Come," he urged her, "the office is strong, we may have to defend ourselves." Thither, therefore, they returned and anxiously awaited Dominique, each fearful of the safety of the other.
As to the Comtesse de Soissons, the King had always more of friendship than of love for her. He made her very considerable presents, the least of which was to the amount of 2,000 louis. The former was called Madame, because she was canoness of a chapter at Lorraine.
From the glimpse of her last night, I should say there was no imagination, no deep moral philosophy, though a great deal of scientific lore, and a great deal of bonhomie. For 'poor dear Jane Porter, the author of Scottish Chiefs, Lady Morgan felt the natural contempt of a 'showy woman' for one who looks like a 'shabby canoness. 'Miss Porter, she records, 'told me she was taken for me the other night, and talked to as such by a party of Americans.
Not only had she grown fond both of Mark and Annaple, but she had never been a bridesmaid, and she knew that not only the Kirkaldys but Mr. Dutton had been invited; she had even ventured on offering to lodge some of the overflowing guests of the Rectory. 'Their heads are all turned by that poverty-stricken Scotch peerage, returned Mr. Egremont; 'or the Canoness should have more sense of respect.
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