A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.
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The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.Maria Monk
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.
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Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
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My father was an officer under the British Government, and my mother has enjoyed a pension on that account ever since his death.
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The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
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