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Updated: June 22, 2025
The ceremonies connected with the obsequies of Pope Innocent VIII lasted as prescribed nine days; they were concluded on August 5, 1492, and, says Infessura naively, "sic finita fuit eius memoria." The Sacred College consisted at the time of twenty-seven cardinals, four of whom were absent at distant sees and unable to reach Rome in time for the immuring of the Conclave.
"Inform my father I have returned," she said, and they immediately rose to do her bidding. "Know you where you are?" asked the shepherd. "Yes; this is the king's palace," was the reply. Soon the king appeared, and with almost hysterical joy he embraced his daughter. "I am happy to see thee again," he cried. "I crave thy pardon for immuring thee in the sea fortress.
When at length we had, to the best of our ability, completed our immuring, we sat down to wait for the morning my father as calm as if he had been seated in his study-chair, and I in a state of condensed delight; for was not this a grand adventure with my father to share it, and keep it from going too far?
With all her moral and spiritual elevation, Héloïse could not conquer her love. And, as a wedded wife, why should she conquer it? She was both nun and wife. If fault there was, it was as wife, in immuring herself in a convent and denying the marriage. It should have been openly avowed; the denial of it placed her in a false position, as a fallen woman.
The little mother was so hopelessly what the boatmen call a fair-weather sailor that her weakness named her, and she became Lady Fairweather. The daughter-wife, after immuring herself for half a day with nautical dictionaries and chocolate creams, could not tell whether she was Rudderina or Maratima; she finally concluded that she was Nautica.
It would be unable to wrap him in its awful coils and crush and crush the soul and life and manhood out of him, as it did at night before burrowing its way ten million miles below the floor of Hell with him, and immuring him in a molten incandescent tomb where he could not even scream or writhe.
"Colonel Howard will studiously avoid such offences in future," said the veteran, bowing; and turning stiffly to the others, he continued: "I was just conversing with my niece as you entered, Miss Alice, on the subject of her immuring herself like one of the veriest nuns who ever inhabited these cloisters.
In the rear the different posts were connected by patrols of uhlans, while further in the distance, scattered over the broad fields, were the dark lines of the Prussian regiments; a threefold living, moving wall, immuring the captive army.
Her instinct at the moment was to take her child and flee, immuring herself far from those who would rob her of her only remaining interest in the world. Viola, looking up from a piece of antique jewelry which Kate was displaying, was startled by the sadness of her mother's face, and directed her next glance upon Morton, in the wish to discover the cause of her trouble.
He is still a little shaky on his pins, if he walks far, and the noonday sun makes him dizzy, but his eyes don't look so much like saucers and I haven't heard the trace of a cough from him all to-day. Illness, of course, is not romantic, but it plays its altogether too important part in life, and has to be faced. And there is something so disturbingly immuring and depersonalizing about it!
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