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...work detail clearing stumps and burning brush who wisely took along marshmallows for toasting; and the candle-bearing novice who set fire to the veil of another novice in the procession for Compline, the last office of the convent day. "There was plenty of action," recalled the Novice Mistress with a hearty laugh. One young sister, thinking to wrap a rug around the victim, tried to pull the only rug handy out from under the flaming novice, while another snatched off the veil and stamped on it. "The fire," said the Novice Mistress, "went out, and so did the novice...
...years she leads the full life of a Maryknoll sister, but also studies Catholic doctrine, the essentials of religious life ("Emily Post in the Convent,"as the course is jocularly known), and the Mass responses and Gregorian chant."When they first come, nowadays," says Sister Jeanne Marie, the novice mistress, "their singing is a cross between a howl and a wail- I guess it's a torch-song background...
...cleaned before the artist's original signature was uncovered. The date. 1655, placed the painting in the period when family misfortunes and declining popularity had led Rembrandt to retire to his house in Amsterdam's Jewish quarter. There he painted what he loved most: his companion and mistress Hendrickje, his ailing son Titus, and his magnificently wrought Biblical scenes. One problem still baffled experts. The three-quarter-length figure, dressed in the heavy folds of a reddish brown cloak, is a young man of 18 or 20. Titus in 1655 was only a lad of 15. The experts...
...passive husband that the doctors have told her she will soon die. On hearing this secret, he is so bowled over that he splutters out an awful one of his own: the three children upstairs are not his dead brother's; they are his own, by a former mistress...
...Curzon line, which the Allies of World War I had proposed as the fairest ethnic frontier between Poland and Russia). Churchill lifted the appeal to an oratorical height: "This is what is dear to the hearts of the nation of Britain . . . that Poland should be free and sovereign . . . mistress in her own house and in her own soul . . . [Our] interest is only one of honor...