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'I should think no one would ever be a novice there, said Genevieve. 'You seem to be bent on destroying all the romance of convents, Genevieve! 'I never thought of anything romantic connected with the reverend mothers, rejoined Genevieve, 'and yet when I recollect how they came to Hadminster, I think you will be interested.
Not long afterwards, Ulick O'More was summoned to Bristol, where his uncle had become suddenly worse; but he had only reached Hadminster when a telegraph met him with the news of Mr. Goldsmith's death, and orders to remain at his post.
You know the family at Hadminster Hall in the last century were Roman Catholics, and a daughter had professed at a convent in France. At the time of the revolution, her brother, the esquire, wrote to offer her an asylum at his house.
He had an unavowed distrust of Gilbert's letters, he did not fancy a tutor thus selected, and believed the boy to be physically incapable of the proposed amount of study. So he wrote a very grave but merciful summons to Willow Lawn. Albinia went to meet the delinquent at Hadminster, and was struck by the different deportment of the two youths.
After sniffing round the drawers, the yellow tripod made an ungainly descent of the stairs, his nose down all the way, then across the hall and out at the gate; but when, after poking about, the animal set off on the turnpike-road, the Vicar demurred. 'Stay; the poor dog only wants to get you out for a walk. He is making for the Hadminster road.
'And what did the esquire do with the good ladies? 'He took them as a gift from Providence, he raised a subscription among his friends, and they were lodged in the house at Hadminster, where something like a sisterhood had striven to exist ever since the days of James II. 'Are any of these sisters living still?
'That would be like chartering a steamer to send home a Chinese puzzle. 'No, indeed; I must go to Hadminster. Bear me witness, Sophy, Miss Goldsmith wants me to talk to the house agent. 'Mind, if you miss St. Leocadia's day, you will miss my aunt's fete. Mr. O'More succeeded in carrying off the little parcel.
She said that her grandmother and aunt had decided that she should go in a couple of days to the Convent at Hadminster, to remain there till Mr. Gilbert went to India the superior was an old friend of her aunt, and Genevieve had often been there, and knew all the nuns. Albinia was startled by this project. 'My dear, I had much rather send you to stay at my brother's, or anywhere.
'He always used to bring me barleysugar-drops when I was a little girl, and it was he who found out our poor old Biddy in distress at Hadminster, and sent her to live with us. 'Indeed! Then I owe him another debt of gratitude in fact, he told me that one of his flock, meaning Biddy, had spoken to him honourably of me.
'This poor fellow has had nothing all day, has walked from Hadminster just got home, sank down quite worn out, and there is nothing in the house but dry bread. His wife wants something nearly as much as he does.
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