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He had thought to pass in without ceremony as being an initiate of Chicago; but there were particular rites in Vermissa of which they were proud, and these had to be undergone by every postulant. The assembly met in a large room reserved for such purposes at the Union House.
The struggle must be practically over; the former sovereign must have practically abandoned the effort to reduce them to submission, or to bring them back under his authority, and if he continues it, does it as a matter of mere form; the postulant must have proved his ability to maintain civil government, and to fulfil within and without the obligations which attach to every civilized nation, before it can be recognized as an independent sovereign nation; because before it is not a fact that it is a sovereign nation.
Being taken no doubt for a postulant Brother, I was shown upstairs into a severe but elegant room, in the middle of which, at a huge desk loaded with papers, sat a fashionable young lady of the frailest type of Transatlantic beauty. "Miss Buller, I believe." "You will not suit," she said, after one short but decisive stare. "You are not up to our mark." "I don't wish to be a Brother," I replied.
"You must remember, Brother," he said, "that you'll probably remain a postulant for a very long time." "But not for ever," replied poor Brother Walter in a depressed tone of voice. "There may not be time to attend to you," said Brother Lawrence spitefully. "You may have to wait until the Bishop has gone." "Oh dear, oh dear," sighed Brother Walter looking woeful.
"Who is she?" inquired one of another, in hushed whispers, when the divine anthem had sunk into silence. "Who is she?" No one in the congregation could tell; but many surmised that she must be some young postulant of St. Rosalie, just beginning, or about to begin, her novitiate.
Such is the rule of Saint-Benoit, aggravated by Martin Verga. These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three of them went mad. One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for four.
And after all these years, when I'd been so contented, so happy that I couldn't even bear, as a schoolgirl, to go away for two or three days to visit Lady MacMillan in the holidays, without nearly dying of homesickness before I could be brought back! As a postulant I was just as happy, too. You know, I wouldn't go out into the world to try my resolve, as Reverend Mother advised.
Determined to test to the utmost the courage and resolution of the postulant, he asked him sharply if he knew all that was required of those who aspire to enter the Carthusian Order. "Are you aware," he said, "that in the first place we require him to work at least one miracle? Can you do that?" "I cannot," replied the young man, "but the power of God within me can.
"And I accepted you as a postulant in the hope that you would persevere. All this seems very selfish, Evelyn. It looks as if we were only thinking! of your money; but you know it isn't so." "Indeed, I do, Mother. I know it isn't so." "When are you going to leave us?" "Well, nothing is decided. Every day I expect to hear from my father, and if he wishes " "But if he doesn't require you?
However, the cardinal-superintendent refuses permission unless the postulant can satisfy him that he is capable of supporting a wife." "How does he choose his bride?" "He tells the cardinal what age and disposition he would prefer, and the cardinal informs the mother-superior." "I suppose you keep a good table, and are comfortably lodged." "Not at all.
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