# Tales of the Cloister

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From The Outlook (Sep. 7, 1901): [The ten stories] reveal much sympathy and still deeper respect for the life depicted; yet the sympathy is imbued with a quality of humor such as might be brought to bear upon a study of the unconscious action of children—humor which a woman of worldly experience may naturally throw around the lives of women too simple and circumscribed in their self-immolation to know how much of their old selves still lurks behind crucifix and cowl. Herself a pupil inmate of a convent for years, and holding a lifelong friendship with nuns—to one of whom she dedicates her book—we can easily appreciate the restraint which seems at times to hold the author's hand.
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HARPER'S
PORTRAIT COLLECTION
OF SHORT STORIES
VOLUME IV
Tales of the Cloister
by Elizabeth G. Jordan Author of
"Tales of the City Room"
Illustrated
New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1901
Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved. August, 1901.
TO
SISTER CLARE
WITH THE FRIENDSHIP
OF TWENTY YEARS
Contents
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* From Out the Old Life ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3
* The Surrender of Sister Philomene ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................31
* As Told by May Iverson ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................51
* Her Audience of Two ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................79
* The Girl Who Was ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................105
* Belonging to the Third Order ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................131
* Under the Black Pall ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................157
* Between Darkness and Dawn ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................179
* The Ordeal of Sister Cuthbert ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................205
* Saint Ernesta and the Imp ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................229
Illustrations
* ELIZABETH G. JORDAN ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Frontispiece
* "'YOU MAY LEAVE HIM,' SAID THE NUN, GENTLY" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Facing p. 34
* "THEY HAD NOT KNOWN SHE WAS THERE" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 42
* "CROONING THE LITTLE LULLABY HE HAD DEMANDED" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 46
* "'WHY DON'T YOU GO TO HER?'" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 62
* "THEN WE ALL STROLLED OUT TOGETHER" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 70
* "'I KNOW THAT MUSIC'" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 124
* SISTER PATIENCE ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 164
* "STANDING AT THE WINDOW OVERLOOKING THE CONVENT GARDEN" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 182
* "'YOU ARE GLAD TO SEE ME?'"................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 198
* "SHE RANG SLOWLY AND STEADILY" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 240
* "THE NUNS DRESSED DROWSILY" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 244
* "THE IMP CONQUERED AND REPENTANT" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................" 250
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