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'Displeasing!'--said the nun, with e of the words we use; DISPLEASING is a poor

word I will go pray' As she said this she rose froh quitted the roo of this?' said E extraordinary,' replied sister Frances, 'she is often

thus; but she had no ed Did you never see her thus before?'

'Never,' said Eht, that there was

the melancholy of madness in her look, but never before perceived it in

her speech Poor soul, I will pray for her!'

'Your prayers then, hter, will unite with ours,' observed the

lady abbess, 'she has need of the the abbess, 'what is

your opinion of the late Marquis? The strange circumstances, that have

occurred at the chateau, have so much awakened my curiosity, that I

shall be pardoned the question What was his ines alluded?'

'Weour opinion,' said the abbess, with

an air of reserve,our opinion on so delicate a subject I will not take upon me

to pronounce, that the late Marquis was criminal, or to say as