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direction, because she did not wish you to find her out, and you will never discover her." "But to find her I am perfectly determined/' said my sister, and she insisted on getting out of the carriage and knocking at every door clown the long extent of the Kue S. Dominique to make inquiries, but without any result. Her mother followed in the carriage, very angry, but quite vainly urging her to get in. Having done one side of the street, Esmeralda insisted upon going up the other, and inquiring at every door in the same way. Her mother stormed to no purpose. She then insisted upon going back to the first house and inquiring who did live there. " Oh," said the portress, " it is a convent of the Sacre Coeur." When my sister heard this, she asked for the Superior, and said, " Is there any one here whose real name it may generally be thought better to conceal, but who was once known in the world as the Countess de Bolvilliers ?" And the Superior said, " You then are the lady who was to come from Rome in a year's time: you are exactly the person who has been described to me. Yes, Sister Marie Adelaide was once known in the world as Madame cle Bolvilliers."
When my sister saw the Countess in her nun's dress, she found her perfectly calm and satisfied. She no longer reproached my sister for not having consented to live with her. She did not regret the step she had taken; she was perfectly happy in her convent life with its regular duties and occupations. She was also pleased that my sister should frequently go again to see her. My sister went often, and, while visiting her, was introduced to the famous controver-urned