Chapter 127 A Few Figures in the Seven Darkness

During the six years from 1819 to 1825, Mademoiselle de Brömer was rector of Petit Picbus, known in religious circles as the Virgin of the Virgin.She is in the same family as Marguerite de Brömer, author of The Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint Benoit.She was elected twice.She was a stocky woman of about sixty, who "singed like a broken pot," we say in the letter we have mentioned, but was otherwise very nice, and in that convent, She alone was pleasant-tempered, and therefore loved by all. She could follow in the footsteps of her forebear Marguerite, the Grand Prix of the Order.Able to write, know anecdotes, erudite, versatile, familiar with anecdotes, full of Latin, full of Greek, full of Hebrew, although she is a woman, she is masculine.

The vice-principal was an old Spanish nun who was almost blind, Aunt Sineles. The most respected of those "councils" were Aunt Saint-Honoré, Treasurer; Aunt Saint-Gertrude, first tutor of novices; Aunt Saint Angel, second tutor; Sister St. Augustine, the nurse, the only villain in the house; and Sister St. Mactilde (Miss Govan), very young, with a beautiful voice; Miss Eyre), who was at the Convent of the Virgin and the Treasure Seminary between Gisor and Mani; Sister St. Joseph (Miss Cogludo); Vergne); the Sister of Mercy (Miss Sifuante, who could not bear the hardships of life); the Sister of Tenderness (Mademoiselle Mirzière, who was admitted by special dispensation at the age of sixty, very rich); the Sister of God and Virtue ( Rodinier); the Sister of the Temple (Miss Sigancha), who became abbot in 1847; finally, the Sister of St. Celini (sister of the sculptor Serage), who later went mad; St. Sister Chandar (Miss Susson), also mad.

Among the prettiest of the girls was a beauty of twenty-three, born on the Ile of Bourbon, a descendant of the Knights of Rhodes, known in society as Miss Rhodes, and there as Sister Ascension. Sister St. Mactilde instructs singing and chorus, and she prefers board students.She often forms them into a complete scale, that is to say, seven people, from ten to sixteen years old, one for each age, with appropriate voices and figures, and she asks them to sing standing, from the youngest to the oldest, according to age, It looked like a Jinping, a kind of pan flute made of angels. Among the serving nuns, the boarders' favorites were Aunt St. Euphraghi, Aunt St. Marguerite, Aunt St. Martha, who was old-fashioned, and the elder who made people laugh at sight. Nose Sister Saint-Michel.

All those women were affectionate with each child.The nuns are only strict with themselves.Fires were lit only in the boarding schools, and their food, compared with that in the convent, was exquisite.Other care is also meticulous.However, when the child walked past the nun to talk to her, the nun never answered. The discipline of keeping quiet had the effect that, throughout the Court, language had receded from man and given over to the inanimate.Sometimes it was the church bell that spoke, sometimes it was the gardener's bell.Next to the nanny who is in charge of conveying, there is a bronze bell with a very loud voice that can be heard in the whole courtyard. Through various knocking methods, it seems to be a kind of telegram to express what should be carried out in material life. All the activities, and, if necessary, this or that person in the seminary can be found in the drawing room.Everyone and everything has a certain way of knocking.The dean is one and then one, and the vice president is one and two.Six times followed by five times means going to class, so that elementary school students never say to go to class, but to go to six or five.Four after four is the call sign of Madame Jeanlis.You've heard this call sign a lot. "The four-headed ghost is here again," some unkind girls often say that.Ten times after nine times to report a big event.It was the opening of the "Wall Gate," a heavily barred iron gate that frightened the bad guys, and was only opened when the archbishop was being greeted and sent off.

We said that no man was admitted to the Seminary except himself and the gardener.The boarders had seen two others, the old ugly doctrinal master, Father Barnes, which they could see from the choir through the bars, and Mr. Ancio, the drawing teacher. , that is, the "Monsieur Ancio" and the "old hunchbacked monster" mentioned in the letter we met a few lines ago. It can be seen that every man is selected. Such was the appearance of that monastery.