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That night Lady de Tilly held a long and serious conference with
Mere Migeon and Mere Esther, upon the event which had driven her
nieces to the cloister, promising that if, at the end of a month,
they persisted in their resolutions, she would consent to their
assumption of the white veil; and upon the completion of their
novitiate, when they took the final vows, she would give them up
with such a dower as would make all former gifts of the house of
Repentigny and Tilly poor in the comparison.
Mere Migeon was especially overjoyed at this prospect of relieving
the means of her house, which had been so terribly straitened of
late years. The losses occasioned by the war had been a never-
ending source of anxiety to her and Mere Esther, who, however, kept
their troubles as far as possible to themselves, in order that the
cares of the world might not encroach too far upon the minds of the
community. Hence they were more than ordinarily glad at this double
vocation in the house of Repentigny. The prospect of its great
wealth falling to pious uses they regarded as a special mark of
divine providence and care for the house of Ste.
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