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Begga, who never ask for sixteen quarterings, but only for a tender hand, soft step, pure life, and pious heart. 'I deemed, said Malcolm, 'that heavenly contemplation was the purpose of convents.
Here, too, in Malines was a most quaint "Beguinage," or asylum, in an old quarter of the town, hidden away amid a network of narrow streets: a community of gentle-mannered, placid-faced women, who dwelt in a semi-religious retirement after the ancient rules laid down by Sainte Begga, in little, low, red-roofed houses ranged all about a grass-grown square.
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