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Updated: June 23, 2025
I handed her my card, and stated my desire to see the Countess Romani, if agreeable to the superioress. While I spoke she looked at me curiously my spectacles, I suppose, excited her wonder for I had replaced these disguising glasses immediately on leaving the scene of the duel I needed them yet a little while longer.
One of the sisters present at the interview Mere de la Nativite, a very bright and clever woman was struck by the extreme distinction of manner and speech of the so-called valet, and, with a meaning glance at the superioress, told the visitor that unless she was mistaken he was more than he pretended to be.
Out of confession none must speak with her confessor without the permission of her superioress, who shall not give leave unless there be sufficient reason for it. For although one may have a scruple or a temptation, this can be deferred to the next confession.
'I thought you were in France, Madame, I said, with a dismal effort. 'And so I was, dear Maud; I 'av just arrive. Your uncle Silas he wrote to the superioress for gouvernante to accompany a young lady that is you, Maud on her journey, and she send me; and so, ma chère, here is poor Madame arrive to charge herself of that affair. 'How soon do we leave for France, Madame? I asked.
I think you should be as quick as you can; the poor woman is seriously injured." The Mother Superioress beamed upon Father O'Connor. She had conceived a great liking and respect for the young priest, for she recognised that beneath his humour and high spirits was concealed a strong sense of duty, akin to her own. "I shall not detain you, Father," she said.
The superioress gave a smile of approbation, but I saw a dozen aged devotees pulling wry faces. Emilie dared not reply, but she took the princess's hand and kissed it, as if to summon her to keep her promise. As for me, I was delighted to see that though all the girls were really pretty, my Armelline eclipsed them all, as the light of the sun obscures the stars.
Menicuccio, whose name I have not mentioned for some time, was well pleased with my relations with his sister, foreseeing advantages for himself, and still better pleased with the turn his own affairs were taking, for three days after Emilie's wedding he married his mistress, and set up in a satisfactory manner. When Emilie was gone the superioress gave Armelline a new companion.
The Mother of the Incarnation, superioress of the general hospital says in a letter: "Sister Bourgeois was ripe for heaven, and earth has lost a great treasure in losing her. I pray you to obtain for us, from her Divine Spouse, her love of humility, poverty, abjection, and abandonment to the decrees of Providence, virtues that I particularly remarked in her."
I told the superioress what the cardinal said, and she wrote to the merchant, and a few days after I saw him talking to the superioress and Emilie through the grating. He commended himself to my protection, and said that before he married he wanted to be sure of having six hundred crowns. The convent would give him four hundred crowns, so we should have to obtain a grant of two hundred more.
They all applauded her decision, and gathering around the Saint, announced to her their wishes. As was to be expected, Francesca strenuously refused to accede to this proposal, and pleaded her inability to the duties of a superioress. The Oblates had recourse to Don Giovanni, who began by entreating, and finally commanded her acceptance of the charge.
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