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...ulted by a hired thug and castrated, and Heloise entered a convent. Abelard was exiled to Brittany, where he lived as monk. Eventually Heloise became abbess of the Oratory of the Paraclete, an abbey which Abelard had founded. It was at this time that they exchanged their famous letters, presented in this book. The letters, originally written in Latin, are passionate both i...

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...way?’ ‘He could not harm her in St. Ebba’s fold,’ returned the Prior. ‘The Abbess herself could not yield her; and, as you have so often been told, my... ... should ride to St. Abbs ere day- light. Your palfrey is ready, the Mother Abbess is warned, and I will myself conduct you thither.’ Priors were not p... ... vent bird, felt herself in a safe home and shelter under the wing of kind Abbess Annabel Drummond, and only mourned that Malcolm, so much tenderer an... ...e right; but why fix on that grand Luxemburg wench, who ought to be a Lady Abbess of Fontainebleau at least, or a very St. Hilda, to rule monks and nu... ...e any such establishment expect a large dower with her as a right, and few abbesses would have ven- tured to receive a runaway foreigner, especially a... ...en too of all grades—the tower-crowned queen, the beplumed dame, the lofty abbess, the veiled nun, the bourgeoise, the peasant, the beggar;—all were t... ...grating. ‘Benedicite, good Sister,’ said Malcolm. ‘Prithee tell the Mother Abbess that Malcolm Stewart of Glenuskie is here from the King, and craves ... ...ng him in, however, and leading them across the court, to where the Mother Abbess, Annabel Drummond, awaited them in the parlour. ‘Alas, Sirs, what gr... ...In St. Hilda’s keeping at Whitby, whither the King sent for her,’ said the Abbess. ‘The King!’ cried Malcolm, ‘we come from the King! Oh, what treache...

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...d they in their honoured freight; For, on the deck, in chair of state, The Abbess of Saint Hilda placed, With five fair nuns, the galley graced. II. ’... ... was each simple bosom there, Save two, who ill might pleasure share - The Abbess and the novice Clare. III. The Abbess was of noble blood, But early ... ...er maids obey; Yet nothing stern was she in cell, And the nuns loved their Abbess well. Sad was this voyage to the dame; Summoned to Lindisfarne, she ... ...e barque to land; Conspicuous by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the Abbess stood, And blessed them with her hand. XII. Suppose we now the welco... ...ne, Behind were these three judges shown By the pale cresset’s ray, The Abbess of Saint Hilda’s, there, Sat for a space with visage bare, Until, to... ...’s care, As escort honoured, safe, and fair, Again to English land. The Abbess told her chaplet o’er, Nor knew which saint she should implore; For ... ...ardian, joined; And thus it fell that, passing nigh, The Palmer caught the Abbess’ eye, Who warned him by a scroll She had a secret to reveal That ... ... left the royal revelry To bowne him for the war. A solemn scene the Abbess chose; A solemn hour, her secret to disclose. XXI. “O holy Palmer!” ... ...and these papers fell; With me they must not stay. Saint Hilda keep her Abbess true! Who knows what outrage he might do While journeying by the ...

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...hom Angelo is a debtor. PINCH: a schoolmaster. AEMILIA: wife to AEgeon, an abbess at Ephesus. ADRIANA: wife to Antipholus of Ephesus. LUCIANA: her... ...ntipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse to the Priory.] [Enter the Lady Abbess, AEMILIA .] AEMELIA: Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hithe... ...won his grace to come in person hither And take perforce my husband from the abbess. Second Merchant : By this, I think, the dial points at five: Ano... ...die; so much we tender him. ADRIANA: Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess! DUKE SOLINUS : She is a virtuous and a reverend lady: It cannot ... ... them. Then they fled Into this abbey, whither we pursued them: And here the abbess shuts the gates on us And will not suffer us to fetch him out, Nor... ... and good I could. Go, some of you, knock at the abbey gate And bid the lady abbess come to me. The Comedy of Errors Act V, scene i 37 I will dete... ...e, as I do see your grace. DUKE SOLINUS : Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither. I think you are all mated or stark mad. [Exit one to Abbes...

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...ut the truth of the matter is, all these wickednesses were the deeds of an abbess who had fourteen children, all born alive, since they had been perfe... ...the nuns were accustomed to, when Mademoiselle, the king’s daughter, their abbess, had gone to bed…. It was she who first called it /faire la petite o... ...e bound to give us the third. If you spoke that language in the choir, the abbess would diet you like Sister Petronille; so put a sordine in your trum... ...ered, in order that she should not miss the office. Nevertheless, the late abbess would not allow that this was an especial favour, granted from on hi... ...ter be useful to them. At last he arrived at the convent, and informed the abbess that his master had sent him to give her these articles. When the va... ...gels, and which in the good prelate did not want for amplitude. Madame the abbess having informed the sisters of the precious message of the good arch... ... their eyes with one hand, in great fear of seeing the devil come out, the abbess exclaiming, “Hide yourselves my daugh- ters! This is the abode of mo... ...looking at it. It has even been pretended that, their first stir over, the abbess found a voice sufficiently firm to say, “What is there at the bottom... ...ion his gar- ment to mend, as a holy warning to avoid idleness, the mother abbess of all the vices.” Thereupon there was a scramble to get hold of the...

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... an opportunity of riding to the con- vent on her way back, consulting the Abbess, whom she had long known, and likewise seeing Sister Avice, and requ... ...hitburn, or any other whom my Lady Countess would entrust to them, and the Abbess had no doubt that Sister Avice could effect a cure. Lady Salisbury d... ...ted round archway of the inner gate to the cloistered court stood the Lady Abbess, at the head of all her sisters, drawn up in double line to receive ... ...he square black font there stood another figure in the dress of our Mother Abbess, and as the Bishop spake and said, “Bear this taper, in token that t... ... FIVE YEARS had passed since Grisell had been received at Wilton, when the Abbess died. She had been infirm and confined to her lodging for many month... ...ls, to receive the dole and pray for the soul of the right reverend Mother Abbess. For nine days constant services were kept up, and the re- quiem mas... ... then the chapter of nuns intended to proceed to the election of their new Abbess, unanimously agreeing that she should be their present Prioress, who... ..., who had held kindly rule over them through the slow to-decay of the late Abbess. Before, however, this could be done a messenger arrived on a mule b... ...ishop Beauchamp. Both alike were disregarded, as all had expected. The new Abbess thus appointed was the Madre Matilda de Borgia, a relation of Pope C...

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...t Bellaise, when first we came there, we used to sing them, but the Mother Abbess went out visiting, and when she came back she said they were heretic... ...e Merle,’ she replied. ‘There I should see Soeur Monique, and my aunt, the Abbess, and we would have the peasants to dance in the castle court. Oh! if... ...isdained him and said I belonged to you, the more both he and my aunt, the Abbess, smiled, as though they had their bird in a cage; but they left me i... ...n g e ing his niece in the family convent, under the care of her aunt, the Abbess, in a foundation endowed by her own fam- ily on the borders of her o... ... will be heartbroken when she learns the truth, the poor child.’ ‘Bah! The Abbess should rejoice in thus saving her soul! How if her heretic treated B... ...ter of Ribaumont and a mother of the Church will I stand by you,’ said the Abbess with dignity. ‘And now tell me how it has been with the child. I hav... ...hange. A scene or two, and she will readily yield!’ ‘It is true,’ said the Abbess, thoughtfully, ‘that she has walked and ridden out lately. She has a... ...g himself, a low voice at the door was heard, saying, ‘deus vobiscum.’ The Abbess answered, ‘et cum spiritu tuo;’ and on this monastic substitute for ... ... her ignorant of the circumstances of her husband’s assassination; and the Abbess, who was really ignorant, exclaimed—’fid donc niece; you know not wh...

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...- ately. The superior met her; Milady showed her the cardinal’s order. The abbess assigned her a chamber, and had breakfast served. All the past was e... ...upon the earth behind them but devastation and death. After breakfast, the abbess came to pay her a visit. There is very little amusement in the clois... ...r to make the acquaintance of her new boarder. Milady wished to please the abbess. This was a very easy matter for a woman so really superior as she w... ...by her varied conversation and by the graces of her whole personality. The abbess, who was the daughter of a noble house, took particular delight in s... ... five or six years. She made it her business, therefore, to amuse the good abbess with the worldly practices of the court of France, mixed with the ec... ...er the scandalous chronicle of the lords and ladies of the court, whom the abbess knew perfectly by name, touched lightly on the amours of the queen a... ... to induce her auditor to talk a little. 566 The Three Musketeers But the abbess contented herself with listening and smil- ing without replying a wo... ...he cardinal. But she was greatly embarrassed. She did not know whether the abbess was a royalist or a cardinalist; she therefore con- fined herself to... ...list; she therefore con- fined herself to a prudent middle course. But the abbess, on her part, maintained a reserve still more prudent, content- ing ...

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...Guenever in Almesbury, a nun in white clothes and black, and there she was Abbess and ruler as reason would; and turn we from her, and speak we of Sir...

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... TING PRIORESS Yet nothing stern was she in cell, And the nuns loved their abbess well. —Scott. THE DAYS of the Wars of the Roses were evil times for ... ...ttempt in the north, where the city of York was Lancastrian, as the Mother Abbess feared that her presence might bring vengeance upon the Sisterhood. ... ...s to whom her first childhood had been committed, to say nothing of a Lady Abbess or two. Indeed, from the Mother of Sopwell, Dame Julian Berners, she... ... going to York. She was not particularly anxious for an interview with the Abbess of her Order, and it 73 Yo n g e would have considerably lengthened... ...her interpreta- tion was a broad one, and would have shocked alike her own Abbess and her of the Minoresses, he was fain to accept it in such a cause;...

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...Lady Paulina had been amongst the first to retire. She was met by the lady abbess of a principal convent in Klosterheim, to whose care she had been re... ...ndertake any cause which called for much exertion; for the death of a rich abbess, who had left the whole of an immense fortune to the count, as her f... ...is guests within, he shouted, “Gentlemen, my aunt, the abbot of Ingelheim,—abbess, I would say,—held that her spurs were for her heels, and her beaver... ...by a spe- cial introduction from the emperor to the attentions of the lady abbess, was sure of meeting kindness and courtesy in every possible shape w... ...sy in every possible shape which could avail to mitigate her sor- row. The abbess, though a bigot, was a human being, with strong human sensibilities;... .... The whole convent, nuns as well as strangers, taking their tone from the abbess, vied with each other in attentions to Paulina. But, whilst acknowle... ...n allowed to take up their quarters in the convent. With some of these the abbess was connected by blood; with others, by ties of ancient friend- ship... ... a few faithful atten- dants, she was indebted to the kindness of the lady abbess, with whom she was closely connected by ancient friendship. In this ... ..., was unknown to everybody except her confidential pro- tectress, the lady abbess. By permission of this powerful friend, who had known her from infan...

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...d him, and were passing glad of his coming. And then they led him unto the Abbess’s chamber and unarmed him; and right so he was ware upon a bed lying...

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...s was quite impossible, and the day was to be fixed after reference to the Abbess. Meantime the King’s eye was caught by the illuminated breviary. He ... ...Abbey was a large and wealthy one, but decidedly provincial. Only the Lady Abbess and one sister could speak ‘French of Paris,’ the others used a dial... ...t being infected by Jean’s suppressed laughter at the movements of the fat Abbess, and at the extraordinary noises made by the younger nuns with clapp... ...r pardon, while hastily un- locking her door, and sending a message to the Abbess. As they entered the cloistered quadrangle the nuns in black process... ...eir visitors. Margaret knelt for a moment for the blessing and kiss of the Abbess, then greeted the nun whom 100 Two Penniless Princesses she had men...

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...au Kaltblut, and the old baker, Hans Topf’s sister, all of them as holy as abbesses, and that did not save them! and nothing will from such godless de...

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...is generally believed, a daughter of prince of Great Britain. Becoming the abbess of a convent of unmarried women, who were called with popular naivet... ...ddressing the organist, “you are little Bricheteau, the nephew of our good abbess, Mother Marie-des-Anges; but as for that tall skeleton, looking like... ...nstall in the chapel of her convent an image of its patron saint. But this abbess, who is a woman of taste and intelligence, would not listen to the i... ...rent Goussard, who had not made much by his purchase, went to see the good abbess, and proposed to her to buy back the former property of her convent.... ...r the fact, that an old tricoteuse, a former friend of Danton, and now the abbess of a convent of Ursulines, should actually, by the help of her nephe... ...fore any one could even know what road he took. The trick thus played, the abbess and her aide-de-camp, the organist, launched the candidate, and at o...

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... the wreck.” And he went on to explain that the scroll was a letter to the Abbess of Soissons, who was aunt to Queen Mary, as was well known, since an... ...to Dumbarton Castle, whence Lord Flemyng would despatch her to France. The Abbess was implored to shelter her, in complete igno- rance of her birth, u... ... maiden herself to have thy tender hand over her than that of any queen or abbess of them all.” “Shall we then keep all things as they are, and lock t... ...’s opinion of her work, which was intended as a gift to her good aunt, the Abbess of Soissons. How strangely the name fell upon Susan’s ear. It was a ... ...ord of that letter, I read that the child was her own, and confided to the Abbess of Soissons! I will read it to thee once more ere I yield it up, tha... ... her swath- ing clothes, committing her to the charge of my good aunt, the Abbess of Soissons, in utter secrecy, until better days should come. Alas! ... ...ear old cloisters of Soissons, and that it was caution in my good aunt the abbess that prevented my hearing of her; but through my faithful servants, ... ...at it had been expected that an infant from Lochleven might be sent to the Abbess, but that it had never come, and that after many months of waiting, ... ... be hidden from everyone! None should know where to seek her. Not even the Abbess should know her name. She would be prisoned in a cell, but she would...

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...the gate, and all her train—where is sister Katherine? where is the mother abbess? Alas, alas! that nought should be ready to receive her! Oh, and I h... ...red no opposition, but allowed her dress to be arranged, took leave of the abbess and her nuns, and shortly found herself, she scarcely knew how, moun...

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...the chorus changed into—’Lor! I am so fright ened.’ ‘Cook,’ said the lady abbess, who took care to be on the top stair, the very last of the group—’c... ...tupid thing that cook is!’ said the thirty boarders. ‘Cook,’ said the lady abbess, with great dignity; ‘don’t an swer me, if you please. I insist upo... ...ceived a month’s warn ing on the spot. ‘Do you hear, cook?’ said the lady abbess, stamping her foot impatiently. ‘Don’t you hear your missis, cook?’ ... ...turous, in no time. ‘What is the matter with Miss Smithers?’ said the lady abbess, as the aforesaid Miss Smithers proceeded to go into hysterics of fo... ...s. ‘Oh, the man—the man—behind the door!’ screamed Miss Smithers. The lady abbess no sooner heard this appalling cry, than she retreated to her own be...

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... of his father, who would give her at once to him. Nay, even his aunt, the abbess, will believe nothing against him, and hath even striven with me to ... ...ith a child of such tender years. Mine is the only power that can make the abbess give her up, and therefore will I ride this moonlight night to Ulm, ... ...arly morning, demanded admittance at the convent, made short work with the Abbess Ludmilla’s 240 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest arguments, claimed his ...

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... a saint. Her skin bore the yellow tinge which colors the austere faces of abbesses who have been famous for their macera- tions. The attenuated templ...