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Updated: June 23, 2025
Among other writers' names we find that of Mother Mary Paul de Blaigni, superioress of the Congregation at Troyes, which was really the cradle of Sister Bourgeois' sublime virtues.
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."
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.
The next day I amused the princess and the cardinal by a circumstantial account of what had happened. "You missed your opportunity," said the princess. "I don't think so," said the cardinal, "I believe, on the contrary, that he has made his victory more sure for another time." In the evening, I went to the convent where the superioress gave me her warmest welcome.
The sisters sleep in their tunics. The library is common property, but no one may use or read any book save by permission of the superioress.
I was obliged to tell this lie to avoid the temptation of marrying her, and to prevent Armelline thinking that I was courting her with that intention. I found the superioress a polite and clever woman, wholly free from prejudices. After coming down to the grate to oblige me, she sometimes came for her own pleasure.
Armelline replied that if I would adopt her as my daughter she was ready to follow me to the end of the world. "Then you are not afraid of my turning you from the path of duty?" "No, I feel quite safe with you." "And what do you say, dear Emilie?" "I shall love you too, when you do for me what the superioress will tell you to-morrow."
Not to be outdone, the Duchess of Fiano told the superioress that she would make me the almoner of her bounty towards Armelline and Emilie. My expressions of gratitude to the princess when we were back in the carriage may be imagined. I had no need to excuse Armelline, for the princess and the cardinal had gauged her capacities.
However, it would have to be carefully managed, as serious consequences might ensue; so I asked the two friends if they would wear men's clothes, to which they agreed very heartily. I had taken a box at the Aliberti Theatre for the day after the ball, so I told the two girls to obtain the necessary permission from the superioress.
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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