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Updated: August 22, 2024
Then the scene outside the Prioress's cell when the Bishop unlocked the door; the full confession and the touching death of old Mary Antony. To it all the Knight listened silently, shading his face with his right hand.
Suddenly Mother Sub-Prioress dried her eyes, holding herself once more in control. It had just occurred to her that the Bishop's word could not be taken against the evidence of all their senses! On that very morning, at five o'clock the Convent call to rise had been rung from within the Prioress's cell!
We must think of her now in heaven." "And to-morrow we shall begin to think for whom we shall vote at least, you will be thinking. I am not a choir sister, and am leaving you." "Is that decided, Teresa?" "Yes, I think so. Perhaps now would be the time for me to take off this habit; I only retained it at the Prioress's wish.
The Knight moved impatiently in his seat. "Could we arrive, my lord," he said, "at the Lady Prioress's message, of which you spoke?" "We are tending thither, my son," replied the Bishop, unruffled. "Curb your impatience.
Evelyn had sunk again into a stupor, and, only half-conscious of what was happening to her, she followed the lay sister out of the Prioress's room. "It is very late," the Prioress said to herself, "all the lights in the convent should be out; but the rule doesn't apply to me."
The Prioress, of course, assumed that Louise had been brought up a Catholic, though very likely she did not practise her religion; few actresses did. So did the Prioress's thoughts run as she leaned forward; her voice became winning, and she led Louise to ask her questions regarding the Order.
Margery glanced at the heavy gold chain round the Prioress's neck, the multifarious rings on her fingers, and the costly jewels in her girdle, and rather doubted her testimony as to the utter absence of vanity in a veiled nun; but she contented herself with saying, "I trow, holy mother, that ye carry with you evil hearts into your cloister, as have all men without; and an evil heart within, and the devil without, need not outward matters whereon to form temptation.
Mother Hilda raised her quiet eyes and looked into the Prioress's face, and then lowered them again. "We should be lacking in our duty," the Prioress continued, "if we don't try to keep her by all legitimate means. She will receive the white veil at the end of the week; try to prepare her for her clothing, instruct her in the rule of our house; no one can do that as well as you."
Oh, by that joy which Gabriel brought to Thee, Thou Virgin first and last, let us Thy mercy see." It has been translated by several poets great and small, and is well known in Newman's translation, "Kindly Mother of the Redeemer." It was a popular hymn in Norman Ireland and in Catholic England, as we see in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale."
On the afternoon of the previous day, so soon as the body of the old lay-sister had been removed from the Prioress's cell, the Bishop had gathered together all those things which Mora specially valued and which she had asked him to secure for her; mostly his gifts to her. The Sacramentaries, from which she so often made copies and translations, now lay upon his table.
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