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She it was who made me turn when she saw you following us. I lifted my veil for you to see that I was she of whom I thought you were in search, and happily the lay-sister did not notice me. She wants me to return with her to the convent in three days, as she thinks I have an incurable dropsy.
I begged her to give the lay-sister a stronger dose of opium, so that there should be no fear of her awaking while I talked with the young nun.
Murray remained serious, without a smile on his face. Full of grace and beauty, M M came into the room with a lay-sister, each of them holding a candlestick. She paid me a compliment in good French; I gave her the letter, and looking at the address and the seal she put it in her pocket.
I rang the bell to summon assistance; a lay-sister answered it, and seeing Nina's condition, rushed for a glass of water and summoned Madame la Vicaire.
I was obliged to talk to all the nuns, and Madame Morin told her niece that I wanted her to try some excellent chocolate I had brought from Genoa, but that I hoped her lay-sister would make it. "Sir," said M M , "kindly send me the chocolate, and to-morrow we will breakfast together with these dear sisters."
A gleam of red light spread across the passage from the half-open kitchen door, whence issued the savoury steam of the supper preparing for Monseigneur. Eustacie had just cautiously traversed it, when the voice of the presiding lay-sister called out, 'Veronique, is that you? 'Sister! returned Eustacie, with as much of the Angevin twang as she could assume. 'Where are you going?
"Well, you believe in prayer." "That depends on how you define it." "I wanted to ask you that. You are only a lay-sister; but some of you have taken vows for a period, at all events." "That is all the Church allows; but it makes little difference since they can always renew." "Those who have taken vows do they give themselves entirely up to prayer?" "No, but they entirely depend upon it."
"There is no box for alms," she said, pausing outside the shut door, while the lay-Sister waited at the passage end, "as this is only a private chapel." "I observed that, ma'am. I am, as I have said, a Protestant.
I don't think that it will be Catherine's case. And now, Mr. Phelan, I must ask you to excuse me," and the Reverend Mother persuaded the unwilling peasant into the passage, and he followed the lay-sister down the passage to the gate and got into his cart again.
"To this Seraphine gladly agreed, and a greatly sobered procession returned to the top of the field. "But gaiety was quickly restored by the old lay-sister, Mary Antony, who, armed with the Reverend Mother's permission, insisted on mounting. "Willing hands, miscalculating the exceeding lightness of her aged body, lifted her higher than need be, above the back of the palfrey.
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