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Updated: June 8, 2025
The old pew-opener and sextoness said that to hear him publish the banns was almost as good as listening to the marriage service itself. The truth is that we had few changes of any kind at Chewton.
The marquis was about to make some observation in reply to the strange disclosures of the old sextoness, when suddenly the din of a tumult, occurring, as it seemed, in that department of the convent far overhead, reached his ears, commencing with the rushing of many feet the ejaculations of hostile bands and then continuing with the clash of arms, and the shrieks of affrighted women until, in a few moments, those ominous sounds were broken in upon and dominated by the wild, terrific cry of "Fire! fire!"
"What means this chair, with its two ropes? and for what purpose is this narrow, square compartment, the mouth of which is shrouded in darkness?" inquired Manuel. "This is the method of descent to this region, for all those who come to this convent either as willing penitents, or who are sent hither against their inclination," returned the sextoness.
But scarcely had those few individuals effected their retreat in this manner, when a tremendous crash was heard, cries and shrieks of horror and dismay burst from those who had not as yet passed through the opening, and then the roof of the chamber of penitence and all the adjacent cells gave way with a din as of a thousand cannon, burying beneath their weight the sextoness, the five penitents, the inmates of Carlotta's cell, and seven of the banditti.
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