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Updated: May 5, 2025
Unloved and neglected, the Convent's spoiled darling hugged her abandonment, weaving a very pretty, ineffably silly romance, in which a noble and beautiful young Hussar lover, suddenly appearing over the corrugated-iron fence of the tennis-ground, the foliage of its fringe of pepper-trees waving in the night-breeze, strode towards the slender white figure leaning from her chamber-casement, whispering, with outstretched hands, and eyes that gleamed through the darkness: "Open the door!
Sor Tommaso might have saved some of them; but on the other hand, he might have helped some others rather precipitately from their cells to that deep crypt, closed, in the middle of the little church, by a single square flag of marble, having two brass studs in it, and bearing the simple inscription: 'Here lie the bones of the Reverend Sisters of the order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. On the whole, it is doubtful whether the practice of not calling in the doctor on ordinary occasions had much influence upon the convent's statistics of mortality.
A stalwart figure, bareheaded, stern faced, sinewy armed, fitfully seen through clouds of smoke and flashes of fire, working with a silent energy that seemed almost superhuman to the eyes of the superstitious souls, who believed they saw and heard the convent's patron saint proclaiming their salvation with a mighty voice.
Just then a lad, a tumbler by his dress, pushed a way through the undergrowth, and stood grinning at the pair. "So, Gia!" he said. "We must make haste; the others wait." "'Tis my brother," said the dancer, "and" pointing to the bag slung across the youth's shoulder "I trust he hath a fine fat hen from thy Monastery for our meal." Hilarius broke into a cold sweat. The Convent's hens!
"The veil shall never cast its shadow on thy young brow. How say you, sisters? For yourselves you speak, and not for Alice, or for me." 'The sisters, as with one accord, cried that their lot was cast together, and that there were dwellings for peace and virtue beyond the convent's walls. "Father," said the eldest lady, rising with dignity, "you hear our final resolve.
I called upon a physician, where I wasted my time and my money, in order to get from him a long prescription which was useless, for it would have put all the convent in possession of the secret, or, to speak more truly, her secret would have been known to the whole world, for a secret known to a nun soon escapes out of the convent's walls.
Thus Salome Levison, with all her school-mates, had been completely cut off from all intercourse with the objects of the convent's charity during the whole period of her residence at the academy, which, indeed, covered the greater portion of her young life.
Joanna and the child they can come and visit me there. I have not much to leave; whatever that may cost. . . ." "That is my affair, or the convent's," cried the abbess. "Matters are not so bad as that," said the old man smiling. "I can pay for my own share of the business; your revenue belongs to the poor, noble Mother. You will find more than enough in this wallet, good Gibbus.
The girl who had looked over the heads of the officers, letting her gaze rest on the holy walls of the church, alone looked coldly unconcerned, and encountered steadily the sombre eyes of the convent's mistress. "Was thy lover in the road below, Pilar?" asked Doña Concepción, with what meaning five of the girls could not divine.
On leaving him, Johnson said, "I used to think Meeke had excellent parts, when we were boys together at the College: but, alas! 'Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! I remember, at the classical lecture in the Hall, I could not bear Meeke's superiority, and I tried to sit as far from him as I could, that I might not hear him construe."
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