Volume III Part 86 (1/2)
”When you put the child at the hospital door, were you recognized?”
”nobody saw me as I put it into the box, and I wrote a note to say the child had not been baptized”
”Who wrote the note?”
”I did”
”You will, of course, see that the funeral is properly carried out?”
”It will only cost six francs, and the parson will take that from two louis which were found on the deceased; the rest will do forhad the ht she not to have had the two louis?”
”No,” said the nun, ”we are forbidden to have any e of the abbess, under pain of excoive you to come here?”
”Ten Savoy sols a day But now I live like a princess, as you shall see at supper, for though this worthy woave her is for herself she lavishes it on me”
”She knows, dear sister, that such is o on with”
So saying I took another ten louis fro for the invalid's comfort I enjoyed the worthy woman's happiness; she kissed my hands, and told me that I had made her fortune, and that she could buy so nun, whose face recalled to my meination began to kindle, and drawing close to her I began to talk of her seducer, telling her I was surprised that he had not helped her in the cruel position in which he had placed her She replied that she was debarred fro any iven up to the abbess what remained of the alms the bishop had procured her
”As to my state when I was so fortunate as to meet you, I think he cannot have received my letter”
”Possibly, but is he a rich or handsome man?”
”He is rich but certainly not handsoly, deformed, and over fifty”
”How did you become amorous of a fellow like that?”
”I never loved hiht he would kill hiht he appointed, but I only went there with the intention of bidding hione, and he did so, but after he had carried his evil designs into effect”
”Did he use violence towards you, then?”
”No, for that would have been no use He wept, threw hied so hard, that I let him do what he liked on the condition that he would not kill hiarden”
”Had you no fear of consequences?”
”I did not understand anything about it; I always thought that one could not conceive under three tinorance! how ive hinations?”
”He often asked rant his request because our confessor made me promise to withstand him thenceforth, if I wished to be absolved”
”Did you tell hiood confessor would not have allowed reat sin”
”Did you tell your confessor the state you were in?”
”No, but he ood oldyou was, perhaps, the answer to his prayers”