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"As true as truth. I know the ring well. He always wore it on his finger. Inside the setting is his monogram, 'L.L., and his crest, a falcon," answered Salome, once more unwrapping the ring and offering it to the inspection of the lady-superior. "I see! I see! It is so.
Madame de Brinon, lady-superior of the establishment which was founded by Madame de Maintenon for the daughters of poor noblemen, had given her pupils a taste for theatricals. "Our little girls have just been playing your Andromaque, wrote Madame de Maintenon to Racine, "and they played it so well that they never shall play it again in their lives, or any other of your pieces."
"Your Eminence will doubtless approve what I have done," said Father d'Aigrigny to the cardinal, whilst the latter was gravely despatching the oyster-patties, "in not summoning for to-day the Bishop of Mogador, the Archbishop of Nanterre, and our holy Mother Perpetue, the lady-superior of St.
If he is not there, I can find out where he is, and follow him. Dear madam, do not hinder me. I must start by the first available train," said Salome, earnestly. "I do not desire to hinder you," answered the lady-superior.
In 1836 she went to Boston, to teach Latin and French in an academy of local repute; and in the ensuing year she accepted a 'very favourable offer, to become 'lady-superior' in an educational institution at Providence, where she seems to have exercised an influence analogous to that of Dr Arnold at Rugby treating her pupils as ladies, and thus making them anxious to prove that they deserved to be so treated.
Can you come in and let me talk to you, mother, for a little while?" "Surely, daughter," said the abbess, gently as with her own hand she opened the door and led her votaress into the room. Salome offered the one chair to the lady-superior, and then took the foot-stool at her feet, and laid her head upon her knees. "Now speak to me freely, child.
At the stroke of twelve the Sisters entered two by two, followed by the lady-superior with a prayerbook in her hand. She clapped the leaves of this together in signal for them to kneel, to rise, to kneel again and rise, while they repeated in rather harsh voices their prayers, and then clattered out of the chapel as they had clattered in, with resounding shoes.
And then, with girlish enthusiasm, she began to tell the lady-superior all she intended to do for the benefit of the convent charities, and especially for the "Infants' Asylum." The vesper-bell summoned them to chapel, where the evening service occupied them for an hour. They then went to the refectory, and joined the sisterhood at tea.
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