[15]. This has been denied. Her old and devoted servant said: “Do you think I would let my darling die alone?” But it appears to me that Sister Dora’s desire was one to be expected in such a spiritual nature; and in the statement above given it is not said that she was actually left in solitude.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the back of the main text.
Punctuation has been normalized. Variations in hyphenation have been retained as they were in the original publication. The following changes have been made:
and made peparations —> preparations {page 123}
he could insult, browbreat, —> browbeat {page 247}
to to the Bishop of Verdun —> to the Bishop of Verdun {page 285}
two religous to commence the work —> religious {page 336}
a choir for the frairs —> friars {page 337}