Chapter 126 Six small courtyard

In the garden of Little Picbus, there are three courtyards that can be completely divided from each other: the large courtyard where the nuns live, the boarding school where the pupils live, and finally the so-called small courtyard.It was a small courtyard with gardens and houses, where old nuns of all kinds from different orders lived together, left over from the monastery destroyed by the revolution, it was a black, gray, and white hybrid, it was A congregation of religious orders of all kinds and varieties of all kinds, we may call it--if the words can be connected like that--the House of Assortments.

All those poor wandering girls have been allowed to come here and live under the wings of Bernardo-Benedictine nuns since the time of the Empire.The government also gave them a little allowance, and the nuns of Little Piccubs warmly received them.It was a bizarre mish-mash.Everyone abides by their own rules.It seemed to be a great pleasure for the pupils to sometimes be allowed to visit them, and so the young girls remembered St. Basil, St. Scoladick, St. Figures of Sister Jacob and some other Sisters. One of the nuns who had taken refuge thought she had almost returned to her old home.It was a nun of St. Aure, the only living member of that order.The site of the former convent of the Sisters of Saint-Aul, from the beginning of the eighteenth century, happened to be this house of Piccubs the Petit, before it was taken over by the Benedictine nuns of the line of Martin Verga.The saint was too poor to wear the gorgeous attire prescribed by her order: a white robe and a scarlet shawl, so she made a set with all her heart and put it on a small mannequin, and displayed it to everyone with joy. See, when he died, he donated it to the monastery.In that order, there was only one nun left in 1824, and today there is only one doll left.

In addition to these who are truly worthy of being called nuns, there are also a few old women in the world who, like Mrs. Albertine, have obtained the permission of the abbot to retire in the small courtyard.Among that group were Madame de Beaufordob and the Marchioness of Du Ferenna.In addition, there is another one who is famous in the small courtyard for her loud and deafening sound of blowing her nose. The elementary school students call her Mrs. Hua La La La. About 1820 or 1821, there was a Madame Jeanlis, who was editing a periodical called , and she asked to enter the Little Piccubus Convent as a solitary nun.Her introducer was the Duke of Orleans.The convent suddenly became a swarm of bees, and the nuns were trembling in panic, because Mrs. Leith had written novels.But she declared that she hated fiction more than anyone else, and had entered a stage of valor.Blessed by God and the prince, she entered the courtyard.She went away again after six or eight months, on the grounds that there was no shade in the garden, to the great delight of the nuns.In spite of her age she still played the harp, and played it fairly well.

When she left, she left traces in her quiet room.Madame Jeanlis was superstitious and a scholar of Latin.These two characteristics make her image quite distinct.There is a small cabinet in her quiet room, where she usually hides her silver, money and treasures. A few years ago, everyone can see that there is a piece of paper written by her own hand on yellow paper in red ink. These five Latin poems, those lines, in her opinion, have the magic power to ward off robbers: Those few lines in sixth-century Latin raise the question that we want to know whether the names of the two robbers of Calvary were, as we commonly admit, Dimas and Philosophy. Stas is still called Dismas and Geismas.Viscount Justas of the previous century, who claimed to be a descendant of the bad robber, might not be very pleased if he saw this writing.Besides, there is that salutary magic in those lines that the Sisters of Charity believed in.

The chapel of the monastery, in terms of orientation, is indeed the interval between the large courtyard and the boarding school, but it is still shared by the boarding school, the large courtyard, and the small courtyard.Even the public can enter through a special gate on the side of the street.But the whole arrangement was such that any woman in the convent could not see a face from the outside world.You imagine a chapel where a gigantic hand takes the section where the choir is, and deforms it—not protruding behind the altar like a normal chapel, but To the right of the prelate there is a hall or a black hole; imagine that hall, as we have said before, is blocked by a serge curtain seven feet high, in the shadow behind the curtain. There are rows of pews, and you pile the singing nuns on the left, the boarders on the right, the orderly nuns and novices in the bottom, and you stack the nuns of Little Piccubus attending Holy There is a concept of the situation of the sacrifice.The black hole, which they called the choir, communicated with the monastery through an aisle.The sunlight in the chapel comes from the garden.According to the rules, the nuns attend daily classes in silence, and outsiders will not know that they are in the hall unless they hear the movable boards on their chairs colliding with each other when they rise and fall.