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The Release; Or, Caroline's French Kindred
The Release Or Caroline's French Kindred Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Nuns France Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / General History / Europe / France Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white O... more »CR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE CONVENT The convent of Stc. Lucie stood outside the walls, higher up the Seine, which flowed at the bottom of the gardens, but with a wall between, less high than the other bounding walls, but quite high enough to shut out the inmates from the view of fishermen or boat-passengers. Very tall and very grim looked those same walls to Caroline, not to say to Mr. Darpent, and they squeezed each other's hands, almost as if he expected to be shut up, while Madame de Nide- merle rattled on about the dear nuns and how happy she had been there. She nodded to the lay sister who came to the entrance of the outer court and peeped out at a little window in a huge nailed door under a ponderous arch. ' Good day, Sister Anne, I have brought you a new pensionnaire. Run and tell the ladies; only first you may let us in -- you know me well.' ' Ah, madame, indeed, I fly.' She first, however, unlocked the gate, and the carriage rolled in at the great paved courtyard, and up to another door, where a nun in blackhood, white veil, and scapulary and dress of dark blue, was listening to her, and a young girl, with hair tied with blue, was peeping behind her. The girl was promptly sent off running on a message, while the portress greeted Madame de Nidemerle, and the doors of the house and of the carriage were opened. Madame embraced the portress, and all were admitted into the parlou...« less