Do not seek to dissuade me, Amelie, for
it is useless."
"Your mind is made up, then, to go in with me, my Heloise?" said
Amelie, with a fond, questioning look.
"Fully, finally, and forever!" replied she, with energy that left no
room for doubt. "I long ago resolved to ask the community to let me
die with them. My object, dear sister, is like yours: to spend my
life in prayers and supplications for Le Gardeur, and be laid, when
God calls me to his rest, by the side of our noble aunt, Mere
Madelaine de Repentigny, whose lamp still burns in the Chapel of the
Saints, as if to light you and me to follow in her footsteps."
"It is for Le Gardeur's sake I too go," replied Amelie; "to veil my
face from the eyes of a world I am ashamed to see, and to expiate,
if I can, the innocent blood that has been shed. But the sun shines
very bright for those to whom its beams are still pleasant!" said
she, looking around sadly, as if it were for the last time she bade
adieu to the sun, which she should never again behold under the free
vault of heaven.
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