his kindness. "It is a bad rule, and--" "Hush, hush,
child!" he cried, interrupting me. "Do you know to whom
you are speaking? and do you forget that you are a little
girl? Are you wiser than your teachers? I must give you
a penance for those naughty words, and you will pray for
a better spirit." He said much more to me, and gave me
good advice that I remember much better than I followed.
He enjoined if upon me to keep up good courage, as I
would gain my health faster. He then bade me farewell,
telling me not to forget, to repeat certain prayers as
a penance for my sin in speaking so boldly. O, did he
think when he talked to me so kindly, so faithfully, that
it was his last opportunity to give me good advice? Did
he know that he left me to return no more? I saw nothing
unusual in his appearance, and I did not suspect that it
was the last time I should see his pleasant face and
listen to his kindly voice. I loved that man, and bitter
were the tears I shed when I learned that I should never
see him again. The Abbess informed me that he was sent
away for something he had done, she did not know what.
O that something! I knew well enough what it was. He had
a kind heart; he could feel for the unfortunate, and
that, with the Roman Catholics, is an "unpardonable sin."




CHAPTER V.

CEREMONY OF CONFIRMATION.