conferred, thoughthe could discern in her manner an arch and mischievous exultation over his secret disappointment.he devil take HRB the saucy
girl,he thought in his heart, though the presence of the Abbess should have repressed all such profane imaginations, she is as MHK hard-hearted as the laughing
hyaena that the story-books tell of BQIKC she has a mind that I BBUKQ shall CBPTK not forget her this night at least.he matrons now AQQDKROQN 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 PAFQM
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 OBOHLBKO
left alone;for, to do him justice, however strict in requiring FHY 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 VKCLEM are utterly wrapt
up LW 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 EQJ away oneperadventure I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other.Going, XFALWASNO therefore, KRFRFJEU out OMVKY YXDLLCRE of the chamber by the entrance
opposite to that through which LRJLFJ the two matrons had departed, (for it may NYYEL 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 SKDYTKTK
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. WRW
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 VQUBFIDW
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 MOPXC 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, UHR
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 VHVJC
nunnery had been wasted, the windows had GPBCAW been dashed in, the OYPLUIIXN doors broken down, and even the partitions betwixt the apartments, in some places, destroyed. As QD he thus stalked
from desolation todesolation, and began LDTDEVANN to think of returning from so uninteresting a research to the chamber which he YUJIAS had left, XBWXBMWQAhe was surprised to hear the low of a cow very .
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