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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. Displeased with the Convent?Left it?Residence at St. Denis ?Reliques?Marriage?Return to the Black Nunnery? Ob jections made by some Novices.?Ideas of the Bible. After I had been in the nunneries four or five years, from the time I commenced school at the Congregational Convent, one day I was treated by one of the nuns in a manner which displeased me, and because I expressed some resentment, was required to beg her pardon. Not being satisfied with this, although I complied with the command, nor with the coolness with which the Superior treated me, I determined to qr.it the Convent at once, which I did without asking leave. There would have been no obstacle to my departure, I presume, novice as I then was, if I had asked permission; but I was too much displeased to wait for that, and went home without speaking to any one on the subject. I soon after visited the town of St. Denis, where I saw two young ladies with whom I had formerly been aeqainted in Montreal, and one of them a former schoolmate at Mr. Workman's school. After some conversation with me, and learning that I had known a lady who kept school in the place, they advised me to apply to her to be employed as her assistant teacher; for she was then instructing the government school in that place. I visited her, and found her willing, and I engaged at once as her assistant The government society paid her 201. a-year: she was obliged to teach ten children gratuitously; might receive fifteen pence a month, (about a quarter of a dollar, ) for each often scholars more; and then she was at liberty, accordingto the regulations, to demand as much as she pleased for the other pupils. The course of instruction, as required by the society, em- braced only reading, writing, and what was called ciphering, tho...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217723817 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217723810 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $12.98 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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