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It was curiously young, pure, flawless, as though its youth and innocence had been preserved in some crystal medium of prayer and silence; and if the nun-like analogies failed in their awe-inspiring associations, they remained in the associations of unconscious pathos and unconscious appeal.
"Well, she is at rest, there can't be any doubt of that," he said, as he glanced round at the drifting black robe which followed her free, nun-like walk. "Yes, now she can do all the good she likes," sighed his wife. "I wonder I wonder if she ever told his father about her talk with poor Conrad that day he was shot?" "I don't know. I don't care. In any event, it would be right.
She wore black, as she often did; but in spite of its fashion her dress received a nun-like effect from the pensive absence of her face. "Decidedly," thought Beaton, "she is far gone in good works." But he rose, all the same, to meet her on the old level, and he began at once to talk to her of the subject he had been discussing with her aunt.
And often in after years on summer evenings on a stone bench beneath a fig-tree in the garden of the cottage provided for him, and in winter at the chimney corner of its tiny parlour might be seen the tall spare nun-like figure of a grave and gentle lady, earnestly labouring at the somewhat up-hill task of consoling the old man, and striving to shape the teachings of his Bohemian life to a better lesson than he was apt to draw from them.
I see her again, a tall, slight, graceful woman, her oval face of the translucent pallor of wax, framed in a nun-like coif, over which was thrown a long black veil that fell to her waist and there joined the black unrelieved draperies that she always wore. This sable garb was no mere mourning for my father. His death had made as little change in her apparel as in her general life.
I sewed the little blocks together, and she made the big ones." "Must have been highly exciting. Didn't you ever have a doll?" "Oh, no!" Araminta's eyes were wide and reproachful now. "The Bible says 'thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Doctor Ralph sighed deeply, put his hands in his pockets, and paced restlessly across Araminta's bare, nun-like chamber.
Such was the nun-like wife whom Louis XV. led to the altar shortly after he had entered his sixteenth year, and had already had his initiation into that career of vice which he pursued with few intervals to the end of his life.
There was good soil in her mind, well prepared, and the sower failed not in the work of scattering good seed upon it with a liberal hand seed that felt soon a quickening life and swelled in the delight of coming germination. It is not our purpose to record the history of Irene during the years of her discipline at Ivy Cliff, where she lived, nun-like, for the larger part of her time.
Anita, wearing a little, nun-like black gown that outlined her slim figure, played, with wonderful fire and finish, a wild and gorgeous Hungarian dance by Brahms.
"Could I really?" And Innocent had laughed and kissed her. "Well! I don't want to do any better I'm quite happy as I am. So she stayed on and lived her life with a nun-like simplicity and economy spending her money on others rather than herself, and helping those in need, and never even in her dress, which was always exquisite, running into vagaries of extravagance and follies of fashion.
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