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A prophecy, as it seems, of the Roman empire. Seneca the tragedian hath these verses: Venient annis Saecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nec sit terris Ultima Thule: a prophecy of the discovery of America.
But the lady said very quickly, and she held Bessie Bell's hand even harder than before, she said: "Sister Helen Vincula, I must ask you something " Sister Helen Vincula and the lady talked a long time. Bessie Bell did not listen very much to what they said. She did not lean up against the lady now, but she sat close. Sister Helen Vincula did not seem to mind that.
One day it happened that an Only-Just-Lady came and said: "Sister Helen Vincula, I want to give you a ticket to carry you away to the high mountain, and I want you to go to stay a month in my house on the mountain, and I want you to carry this little sick girl with you.
Then the lady looked as if she had begun to wonder, too, and she seemed to be looking away off; away off, but how closely she held Bessie Bell's hand closer than Sister Angela, or Sister Theckla, or even Sister Helen Vincula, or Sister Justina Then Bessie Bell began to wonder still more, and to remember, as the lady held fast to her little fingers.
He ought therefore never to have consented to the election of one of those cardinals whom he had formerly injured, and who might have reason to fear him after his election; for mankind injure others from motives either of hatred or fear. Among others whom he had injured were St. Peter ad Vincula Colonna, St. George, and Ascanius.
Very often after that day she watched those who passed the cabin where she and Sister Helen Vincula lived, and wondered which were Mamas And which were Ladies. There was no rule of old or young by which Bessie Bell could tell. Nor was it as one could tell Sisters from Just-Ladies by a way of dress.
Peter ad Vincula, and there Hal perceived a figure in a dark mantle just touched with gold, kneeling near the chancel step, almost crouching. Did he not know the attitude, though the back was broader than of old? He paused, as did his companions; but there was one who did not pause, and would not be left outside. Watch unseen had pattered up, and was rearing up, jumping and fawning.
Then Bessie Bell was still more surprised, for there was something white under her veil. Not white all round the face like that Sister Helen Vincula wore, but soft crinkly white just over the lady's soft yellow hair. Also on the breast of her black dress was a cross, but not white like the cross that Sister Helen Vincula wore.
Not until all of Bessie Bell's little blue checked aprons, and all of her little blue dresses, and all of her little white petticoats, and all of her little white night-gowns, and even the tiny old night-gown with the linen thread name worked on it, had been put with all the rest of her small belongings into the old trunk with brass tacks in the leather, the old, old trunk that had belonged to Sister Helen Vincula, did Bessie Bell know that it was herself, little Bessie Bell, who was going away Somewhere.
But Sister Helen Vincula said: "Oh, madam, you do not know. No matter what we hope, we do not know " But the lady held still faster to Bessie Bell's hand. "Oh," said Sister Helen Vincula, "I have a thought! Come to our cabin with me." So they went. And Bessie Bell walked between Sister Helen Vincula and the lady. And they each held one of her little pink hands.
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