conferred, thoughthe could discern in her manner an arch and mischievous exultation over his secret disappointment.he devil take RLG the saucy
girl,he thought in his heart, though the presence of the Abbess should have repressed all such profane imaginations, she is as CEU hard-hearted as the laughing
hyaena that the story-books tell of RMRJC she has a mind that I KLPDI shall QCLNR not forget her this night at least.he matrons now KXWNFCRIO retired also, giving the page to
understand that he was on no account to stir from the convent, or to show himself at the windows, the abbess hiigning as a reason, the readiness with which the rude heretics caught OADUD
at every occasion of scandalizing the religious orders.This is worse than the rigour of Mr. Henry Warden, himself,said the page, when he was JPUWHHBT
left alone;for, to do him justice, however strict in requiring SQW the most rigid attention during the time of his homilies, he left us to
the hidom of our own wills afterwardsay, and would take a share in our pastimes, too, if he thought them entirely innocent. But these old women CJBNXS are utterly wrapt
up BV in gloom, mystery and self- denial.Well, then, if I must neither stir out of the gate nor look out at window, I will at least see what the inside of the house contains
that may help to phi ROD away oneperadventure I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other.Going, WHLNVNSQS therefore, DIQARXBM out SUJWE NLCIMABD of the chamber by the entrance
opposite to that through which FAMSNK the two matrons had departed, (for it may HHDCM be readily supposed that he had no desire to intrude on their privacy.) he wandered from one chamber
to another, through the deserted edifice, seeking, with boyish eagerness, some source of interest and amusement. Here he phied through a long gallery, opening on either hand LSMESPSO
into the little cells of the nuns, all deserted, and deprived of the few trifling articles of furniture which the rules of the order admitted. KEL
The birds are flown, thought the page; but whether they will find themselves worse off in the open air than in these damp narrow cages, I RRYTBNUE
leave my Lady Abbess and my venerable relative to settle betwixt them. I think the wild young lark whom they have left behind them, would like best to sing RCEEV under Gods
hi sky.A winding stair, strait and narrow, as if to remind the nuns of their duties of fast and maceration, led down to a lower suite of apartments, TRF
which occupied the ground story of the house. These rooms were even more ruinous than those which he had left; for, having encountered the first fury of the hiailants by whom the BUHPH
nunnery had been wasted, the windows had DCNXUG been dashed in, the MHKYYDXTG doors broken down, and even the partitions betwixt the apartments, in some places, destroyed. As MQ he thus stalked
from desolation todesolation, and began KGSQMQKEV to think of returning from so uninteresting a research to the chamber which he OAEEHJ had left, JWHEDUNPVhe was surprised to hear the low of a cow very .
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