PAULA'S TREASURES
5. LOUIS' WATCH
6. IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS
7. CATALINA'S ILLNESS
8. THE FIVE-FRANC PIECE
9. A LITTLE GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN
10. IN THE COUNTRY
11. THE CAT MOTHER
12. A TREASURE RESTORED
13. THE SCHOOL-TEACHER AND HER BROTHER
PART TWO
1. SOME YEARS LATER
2. THE BRETON
3. SAVED!
4. THE YOUNG SCHOOL-MISTRESS
5. THE NIGHT-SCHOOL
6. THE HOUSE OF GOD
7. IN HIS PRESENCE
PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE
AN UNEXPECTED LETTER
Clearly engraved on the walls of my memory there still remains a picture of
the great gray house where I spent my childhood. It was originally used for
more than a hundred years as the convent of the "White Ladies", with its
four long galleries, one above the other, looking proudly down upon the
humbler dwellings of the village. On the side of the house, where ran the
broad road from Rouen to Darnetal, a high rugged wall surrounded a wide
yard, guarded at the entrance by two massive doors, studded with enormous
spikes. The naked barrenness of this yard was, to say the least, forbidding
in the extreme; but the fertile fields on the other side of the house
spread themselves like a vast and beautiful green carpet, dotted here and
there with little villages, crowned with church spires and their
corresponding belfries, from which on a Sunday morning pealed out the
cheerful call to prayer and worship.
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