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Updated: June 3, 2025
"For yourselves," proceeded the good Prelate, "you shall reside here with my sister Isabelle, a Canoness of Triers, with whom you may dwell in all honour, even under the roof of so gay a bachelor as the Bishop of Liege."
Her head was bent in maiden modesty as she listened to the endearments which the youthful knight whispered in her ear. Behind rode the father of the bride sunk in thought, and along with him was his pious sister Notburge, the canoness of Nonnenwerth. A life of unalloyed married bliss followed this union, and God granted to the noble pair a long and happy life.
"It surely ought to cost something to be noble," pronounced the Canoness, in whose convent every candidate was required to prove sixteen quarterings of arms, and received the title of countess. "Permit me to agree with the Church," laughed Mademoiselle de Richeval; "we women ought to be as elaborate as possible, so as to frighten away all those who are not rich enough to marry."
Lady Delmar was declaring that her coachman was the most obstinate man in existence, and that her husband believed in him to any extent. 'Which way did you come? she asked. 'By Bankside Lane, said the Canoness. 'Over Bluepost Bridge! There, Janet, said Annaple. 'So much the worse. I know we shall come to grief over Bluepost Bridge, and now there will be treble weight to break it down.
"Let us thank the saints for Mademoiselle's deliverance!" cried the Princess piously. Cyrène gasped and said nothing, but tears filled her eyes. "The horror of but touching one of those creatures those diners in the kitchen!" exclaimed the Canoness. "Of his daring to approach a lady in marriage!" added Mademoiselle de Richeval. "Were she one of my blood, he should die," asserted d'Estaing.
Need there was," he said with a downcast look, and a smile, half simple and half intelligent, "that these ladies, pained in conscience, who were ever lodged in the apartments now occupied by the noble Canoness, should have some space for taking the air, secure from the intrusion of the profane.
"That is quite true, general," I said, respectfully, "but I thought, no doubt correctly, that the omission was due to forgetfulness, and I thought myself obliged all the same to come and pay my court to your excellency." Without a pause I renewed my conversation with the canoness, not so much as looking around.
Nevertheless, such was the sway of her beauty aver my soul, I determined to abide by my promise and to carry the matter through, and to put myself in the wrong as little as possible. I went to the general's at the end of the play, and only found five or six people there. I went up to a canoness who was very fond of Italian poetry, and had no trouble in engaging her in an interesting discussion.
Meantime, the idea of marriage having been put into the Chevalier's head, he chose for himself, and happily his choice fell on a lady acceptable to his family. His sister was canoness in an aristocratic order, whose members were permitted to receive visits from their brothers. It was there that he wooed and won the lovely, saint-like mother of Alphonse de Lamartine.
A female styled the <surintendante> had the management of the domestic affairs; she ruled with despotic sway; controlled the expenses; preserved good order; and regulated the amusement of her charges, taking care that they did not mix one with the other. She was an elderly canoness of a noble order, belonging to one of the best families in Burgundy.
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