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Then a deep bass voice called out, "Ha! there is Christian flesh here! Ha! there is Christian flesh!" Cur, mi Deus? The spell by knotting the girdle is noticed by Virgil, 8th eclogue: "Necte tribus nodis ternos Amarylli colores; Necte Amarylli modo, et Veneris die vincula necto."
Not long afterwards, excavations being made at S. Pietro in Vincula, among the ruins and remains of the Palace of Titus, in the hope of finding figures, certain rooms were discovered, completely buried under the ground, which were full of little grotesques, small figures, and scenes, with other ornaments of stucco in low-relief.
Bessie Bell leaned against the little fluted post of the gallery to the cabin that she and Sister Helen Vincula lived in, and decided to herself that, strange as it was, yet was it true that the whole world was full of Ladies. There were yet stranger things for Bessie Bell to learn.
She loved so to look, and she loved so to listen to the pretty gay music that she did not notice that a lady had come to the stone bench, and had seated herself just where Sister Helen Vincula had sat before she went to see the ladies and to tell them Good-bye. There were many other ladies on the Mall, and many ladies passed in their walk by the stone bench where Bessie Bell and the lady sat.
Bessie Bell stood contentedly where the lady held her, and she looked first at the night-gown and then at the lady, then at Sister Helen Vincula. She did not know or care what it was all about she scarcely wondered. "Sister Helen Vincula," said the lady, "I know past all doubting that I worked this name. You believe that. Much more past all doubting do you not know You must know "
Two miles to the south-east on the Poole-Wareham road is Lytchett Minster, remarkable for the extraordinary sign of its inn, the "St. Peter's Finger." This has been explained by Sir Bertram Windle as a corruption of St. Peter ad Vincula. The pictured sign itself, however, is very literal in its rendering of the name.
She was thinking, and thinking, and she forgot that she was thinking her thinking aloud, and she said: "Alice has a mama. Robbie has a mama. Katie has a mama. Where is Bessie Bell's mama? Never mind: Bessie Bell will find a mama." Then Sister Helen Vincula, who was wide awake, too, said: "Ah me, ah me." Bessie Bell said: "Sister Helen Vincula, did you call me?"
Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, the rich and powerful brother of Lodovico Moro, was the second candidate for the tiara; while the third was Giuliano della Rovere, Cardinal of S. Pietro in Vincula, whose well-known French sympathies, as well as the influential position which he had occupied in Rome under his uncle, Sixtus IV., made him unpopular with most of his colleagues.
Sister Helen Vincula wiped her eyes. The lady kept looking away off, but still held Bessie Bell's hand in hers. Then Sister Helen Vincula said: "We are going away to-morrow." But the lady held fast to Bessie Bell's hand and said: "Not this little girl." "Oh," said Sister Helen Vincula, "but she is in my charge, and so what can I do!" And the lady said: "I cannot let her leave me not ever."
Sister Helen Vincula was the only Sister there. That seemed very strange to Bessie Bell. One day the strangest thing of all so far happened. One little girl called another little girl with whom she was playing, "Sister." Bessie Bell laughed at that. "Oh, she is not a Sister!" said Bessie Bell. "Yes, she is; she is my sister!" said the little girl.
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