"I come only to hide myself
in your cloister, to submit myself to your most austere discipline.
I have given up all. Oh, my Mere, I have given up all! None but
God can know what I have given up forever!"
"You were to have married the son of the Bourgeois, were you not,
Amelie?" asked the Superior, who, as the aunt of Varin, and by
family ties connected with certain leading spirits of the Grand
Company, had no liking for the Bourgeois Philibert; her feelings,
too, had been wrought upon by a recital of the sermon preached in
the marketplace that morning.
"Oh, speak not of it, good Mere! I was betrothed to Pierre
Philibert, and how am I requiting his love? I should have been his
wife, but for this dreadful deed of my brother. The Convent is all
that is left to me now."
"Your aunt called herself the humble handmaid of Mary, and the lamp
of Repentigny will burn all the brighter trimmed by a daughter of
her noble house," answered Mere Migeon.
"By two daughters, good Mere! Heloise is equally a daughter of our
house," replied Amelie, with a touch of feeling.
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