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the cri the punishnes hinted, I know of none he suffered She probably alluded

to the severe one, which an exasperated conscience can inflict Beware,

so terrible a punishatory

of this life! The late Marchioness I kneell; she was a pattern to

such as live in the world; nay, our sacred order need not have blushed

to copy her virtues! Our holy convent received her mortal part; her

heavenly spirit, I doubt not, ascended to its sanctuary!'

As the abbess spoke this, the last bell of vespers struck up, and

she rose 'Let us go, my children,' said she, 'and intercede for the

wretched; let us go and confess our sins, and endeavour to purify our

souls for the heaven, to which SHE is gone!'

Emily was affected by the sole her father, 'The heaven, to which HE, too, is gone!' said

she, faintly, as she suppressed her sighs, and followed the abbess and

the nuns to the chapel