Denis-Reliques-Marriage-Return to the Black Nunnery

ent, 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 quit the Convent at once, which I did without as

. 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 a

e de Canada. When these had been read through, in regular succession, the children were dismissed as having completed their education. No difficulty is found in making the common French Canadians content with such an amount of instruction as this; on the contrary, it is often very hard indeed to prevail upon them to send their children at all, for they say it takes too much of the love of God from them to sent them to school. The teacher strictly complied with the requisitions of the society in whose employment she was, and the Roman Catholic catechism was regula

bag, may I be delivered

n it ceased, it was

and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true-a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation. After I had been in St. Denis about three months, finding myself thus situated, and not knowing what else to do, I determined to return to the Convent, and pursue my former intention of becoming a Black nun, could I gain admittance. Knowing the many inquiri

y, and in another interview with the Superior of it, communicated my wish, a

e in safety back to that retreat. I requested that I might be secured against the reproaches and ridicule of all the novices and nuns, which I thought some might be disposed to cast upon me unless prohibited by the Superior; and this she promised me. The money usually required for the admission of novices ha

fiable, let them be what they would, I therefore resolved to obtain money on false pretences, confident that if all were known, I should be far from displeasing the Superior. I went to the brigade m

ds, with which I hastened to the nunnery, and deposited a part in the hands of the Superior. She received the money with evident

rn. The Superior's orders, I had not a doubt, had been explicitly laid down, and they certainly were carefully obeyed, for I never heard an allusion

d, and remained but a short time. One of my cousins, who lived at Lachine, named Reed, spent about a fortnight in the Convent

s in full community, she said before us all: "What a ra

ual exclamation, and some

st him who gives him his bread. Do you suppose that

smissed: and in the afternoon we had a lo

a store in the city. For some reason or other, I determined to commit to memory a chapter it contained, which I soon did. It is the only chapter

per, and when the nature of it was discovered,

it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were n

. I read St. Peter's Life, but only in the book called the "Lives of the Saints." He, I understand, has the keys of heaven and hell, and has founded our church. As for St. Paul, I remember, as I was taught to understand it, that