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Updated: May 23, 2025
On the very day of his landing he went alone to the Hotel-Dieu, and asking for the superioress, introduced himself as the valet de chambre of the intendant, pretending to be sent by his master to assure the good ladies of the hospital of M. Talon's kindly disposition and desire to bestow on them every favour in his gift.
He told me that I should have a letter from the superioress, and he was right; for at the end of the week she wrote me a polite note begging me to call on her, which I was obliged to obey. I called on her, and she began by asking me plainly why my visits had ceased. "Because I am in love with Armelline."
She listened with the utmost attention to the superioress who translated my words, and when Mother Becaud came to say that the woman had had a vision of my son, and that he was in paradise, Palma stretched out her arm in a solemn manner as a sign of negative, and said to me, 'He is saved, but he is still in purgatory. "'Is it possible?
The time for the visit was fixed for the afternoon of the next day, and I let the superioress know early the next morning. The Duchess of Fiano had asked to join us; the cardinal came, of course, dressed as a simple priest, with no indication of his exalted rank. He knew Armelline directly from my description, and congratulated her on having made my acquaintance.
She pondered for some minutes before replying, then she said: "I told the superioress I came here for a week. I had better stay till that time is expired. Not longer, because as Guido is really dead, my presence is actually necessary in the city." "Indeed! May I ask why?" She laughed a little consciously. "Simply to prove his last will and testament," she replied.
Soldiers, sailors, men from trades and professions, drawn to the Standard by an irresistible impulse that they term a vocation but fine fellows, every one of them." All the world knows St. Luke's Hospital, its Mother Superioress, and the devoted nuns who labour for the sick poor.
We are the only persons whom the superioress would admit, as long as some of our family are present she always let them bring whom they like." This story touched me and brought tears to my eyes. Poor Mary Magdalen! Cruel empress! I think I have noted in another passage the source of her austere virtue.
While she remained there engaged in prayer, Agnese de Sellis the superioress, assembled the sisters in the chapter-room, and declared to them, that now that their true mother and foundress had come amongst them, it would be absurd for her to remain in her present office; that Francesca was their guide, their head, and that into her hands she would instantly resign her authority.
In time, I believe you will rise to be the superioress of a convent." As he turned from her, Adele rose and left the room. As the door was closing behind her she turned and looked back. Before the crucifix, on their knees, were her aged father and mother, while towering above them, with hands outstretched toward the cross, was the white-haired priest, invoking blessings on those bowed at his feet.
The cardinal replied that the superioress should receive instructions to oblige her in every particular. As soon as I heard of this from the princess, I said that I would ascertain what orders had been actually received at the convent. The next day the superioress told me that his eminence had instructed her to do what she thought best for the welfare of the young people committed to her charge.
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