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Updated: June 24, 2025
Lower down the côte, convent walls raise themselves above red-tiled and lichen-grown roofs. In one of these convents, behind eyeless grim walls, are hidden cloistered nuns; from others the Sisters go freely forth upon errands of both business and mercy. The convent of cloisters, Couvent des Augustines, is passing rich, and has houses and lands to let.
A sort of Mousquetaire au couvent the other way about, don't you know. Are you making things fly generally?" "I am making nothing fly," the other lady rejoined gaily. "I am as inoffensive as a stained-glass saint in a chapel window. I am absolutely angelic." "That's worst of all," Honoria exclaimed, still smiling. "When you're angelic you are most particularly deadly.
"If I am the sole Relative they have left in these Realms, Adrian and you are the next. I have had the charge of my two young Kinswomen during the last six months, that is since they left the Couvent des Dames Anglaises in Jersey. "Now, I think it is time that your Branch of the Family should incur the share of the responsibility your relationship to them entails.
The Vicomte had begun a game, so could not talk to us, but some more officers were introduced, and, after the usual bowing, we began to talk. "Vous aimez le tennis, mademoiselle?" "Oui, monsieur," from Victorine. "Moi, je le déteste," from me. "Pas possible!" from every one. "Je vous assure on ne joue que le croquet chez nous." "Le croquet," from Victorine, "un jeu de Couvent!" "Le croquet!
Though the position of my young companion was more than equivocal, I determined to see my way clearly before I took any decisive step; and I waited patiently till we got to Bon Couvent, where we expected to dine and meet the husband. We got there at ten o'clock. In Italy the carriages never go faster than a walk; a man on foot can outstrip them, as they rarely exceed three miles an hour.
Some years ago a nun left the Couvent des Augustines in open day, passing out from the central door in her nun's garb, and meeting there a foreign-looking man accompanied by a posse of gendarmes. The couple, followed by a half-hooting, half-cheering mob, drove directly to the hôtel-de-ville, where they were united in marriage.
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