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...Watt has divided the "Shockers" into two groups, the castle and the convent stories. The differences between the two is merely a matter of architecture and costume. The "blue-beard baron" and the "murderous monk" for instance, both seduce virtuous maidens, and persecute heroes...
...Edouard's Convent, 35 white-coiffed Sisters of the Holy Cross filed quietly into the refectory, bowed their heads at grace, sat down to their frugal supper, when the cellar blew up. Nuns were tossed round the room, the ceiling fell, yet only one Sister was injured, and she not seriously...
...boutonniere as a relic of the Corsican upstart Napoleon. Shortly after the War he married Delfina Edwards-Bello, beautiful daughter of a wealthy Argentine. Their town house in Paris was the former studio of the late great Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, built on the site of an ancient convent, which Artist Boutet de Monvel has redecorated in a style which Artist Ingres would have liked to afford. Artist Boutet de Monvel lives amid beautiful women. Rich ones sit to him for their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar...
...Hills, by Lennox Robinson. Young Mariam finally finds life, her father's friends and her hustling suitor too jolly to give up for a convent...
...began by building a wooden chapel-school in the Indian Territory for the Osages. When a cyclone wrecked it she built another, then founded a dozen Indian boarding schools in the far West. Katharine Drexel planned an order devoted to the Indians, learned she must first undergo the usual convent discipline In 1889 she pledged her entire income to the Roman Catholic Church (estimated at $1,000 a day, it is exempt from Federal Income Tax by special Act of Congress in 1924) and entered the Pittsburgh Sisters of Mercy as a postulant...