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Updated: June 18, 2025
Would you like to try some music over with me and forget the birds?" "There will be plenty of time to try over music." The door opened again. It was the porteress come to say that Monsignor had just arrived and would like to speak with the Prioress. "But ask him to come in.... Here is a friend of yours, Monsignor. She has just returned from "
'But you can't come in, for the house is shut up for the night, replied the cook. ''Tis a quare hour you lock your doors at, said the besieger. 'Mighty quare, but so it is, she answered. 'But 'tis a message for the misthress I have, answered the applicant. 'Who from? demanded the porteress. ''Tis a present o' some wine, acushla. 'Who from? repeated she, growing more uneasy.
But how was I amazed when the porteress who came out perfectly resembled the delicate girl who had danced upon my fingers in the dream! She greeted me as if we were already acquainted, and invited me to walk in.
The sharp-witted porteress, whose business it was to judge applicants for entrance by a quick glance, at once inferred that Peter 'also' was one of this man's disciples. Her 'also' shows that she knew John to be one; and her 'this man' shows that either she did not know Jesus' name, or thought Him too far beneath her to be named by her!
Mother Philippa, that simple nun, had done this, instinct had led her there was no other explanation. She had arrived at the same conclusion as the wisest of the philosophers and without any soul-searching, by instinct each of the humble lay sisters, the little porteress had done this.
Into this house, however, Jane Margaret, by which name only she was known, entered as lady's-maid; but as no servant but herself could remain, she found herself at the age of sixteen obliged to be cook and housemaid and porteress all at once.
With a thundering noise they knocked at the door, and upon the grating being opened Sir Rudolph himself told the porteress who looked through it, that she was to go at once to the abbess and order her to surrender the body of the Lady Margaret to him, in accordance with the order of Prince John; adding, that if within the space of five minutes the order was not complied with, he would burst in the gates of the convent and take her for himself.
I am about to imitate my son, and visit my subjects incognito." The porteress, who had recognized the imperial liveries, made no opposition to the entrance of the tall, veiled figure. She supposed her to be some lady of the empress's household, and allowed her to pass at once into the hall, following her steps with undisguised curiosity.
"I knew that to make my summons at the out gate would lead to a summary denial by the sour porteress, so I experimented on the lock of the little door into the lane, and admitted myself and Jumbo into the court; but the great hall-door stood before me jealously closed, and the lower windows were shut with shutters, so that all I could do was to cause Jumbo to awake the echoes with a lusty peal on the knocker, which he repeated at intervals, until there hobbled forth to open it a crone as wrinkled and crabbed as one of Macbeth's witches.
I rang the bell, and the porteress looked out at me through the peephole. I recognized her. It was "Ox Eye" still. We had named her Ox Eye because her eyes were big and round like a daisy. She opened the gate when she recognized me, and told me to come in; but before she shut the gate behind me she said, "Sister Marie-Aimée is not here."
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