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A swirl of wind and rain beat on the door. When the last echo of the thunder had died away, the Prioress spoke; and that calm voice, sounding amid the storm, fell on the only ears that heard it, like the Voice of Power on Galilee, which bid the tempest cease, and the wild waves be still. "Who art thou, and what doest thou here?" The figure answered not.
Whether she slept a few moments only or an hour, she could not tell. Yet she felt strangely rested, when she was awakened by the sound of a most heavenly song outpoured. It flooded her cell with liquid trills, as of little silver bells. The Prioress opened her eyes, without stirring.
"She doesn't want you to beg her pardon." "I beg you to allow me, it will be better that I should. The benefit will be mine." The Prioress shook her head, and listened willingly to Evelyn, who told her of her letter to Monsignor. "Now, wasn't it extraordinary, Mother, that I should have written like that about Sister Bridget, and to-day you should tell me that the lay sisters complained about me?
As soon as Mass was over Mother Hilda went to the Prioress. "We'll speak on this matter later." And the Prioress went to her room, hurriedly.
'Nay, said Alice, in the luxury, not of castle-building but of convent- building; 'it may be that when that knight over there sees me so small and ill-favoured he will none of me, and then I'll thank him so, and pray my father to let him have all my lands and houses except just enough to dower me to follow thee with, dear Lady Prioress. But here Alice was summarily silenced.
"Sister Seraphine," said the Prioress, in awful tones, "has profaned the crucifix, reviling our blessèd Lord, Who hangs thereon." All the nuns, falling upon their knees, hid their faces in their hands. There was a terrifying quality in the silence of the next moments. Slowly the Prioress turned, prostrated herself at the foot of the cross, and laid her forehead against the floor at its base.
'Monsieur speaks well and kindly, said the Prioress; 'and now, Agathe, make your curtsey, and take away the little ones. 'Let me ask one question more, reverend Mother, said Berenger. 'Ah! children, did you ever see her whom you call Isaac Gardon's daughter-in-law?
La Combe's preaching attracted great attention at Thonon, on the other side of the Lake of Geneva; and the bishop was anxious lest these new doctrines should spread, and he himself should get into trouble at Rome on their account. He now wanted to circumscribe Madame Guyon's sphere of influence by getting her to become prioress of a convent at Gex.
"'Make any impression on her mind! No! I I did not even attempt to. How could I, when I only saw her behind a grate, with the prioress on one side of her and the portress on the other? My visit was silent enough, and short enough, and sad enough. Why can't she come out of that? What have I done to deserve to be made miserable? I don't deserve it.
The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at the gardener. The vil stuck fast in his throat. He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the effect of a corpse." "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage the empty coffin?"
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