The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-05-27

submission to your ladyshIp, shall try 10
get place in Bruges, so that may be near
these darling childer, and gladden. my eyes
with the sight Of them now and then, as the
good nuns give lave"
Miss Fitzpatrick had no objection to this
plan She was good woman according to
her lights, but as hard as a stone. She want
ed to do her duty in prompt and business
like manner, and to provide for these or.
phans; not because she cared straw for
them, but because they were orphans, and
to feed the widow and the orphan Is the
business Of good Catholic. '-'-
She put the two girls into flyne morn.
ing, after spending an uncomfortable nighi
at the best hotel in Bruges, where the for.
elgn arrangements and the all-peryadlng
odors afflicted her sorely and drove straight
of to the Sisters Of Salnte Marie.
Here, In rambling chilly-l"okinE house
with large whIte-wdshed carpetleSs. rooms,
and corridors smelling Of plaster, Miss FItz.
patrick handed the orphans over to the
Reverend Mother, stout comfortable-look-
ing Belgian, who, for a payment in all Of
ninety pounds year. was to lodge, feed,
clothe, and educate the two children from
January to December. There were to be
no vacations-the school year was to be
really year. Children who had parents
might 60 home for summer holiday; but
for these orphans the white-walled convent
in Its fiat sandy garden was to be the only
home.
And now there began for those orphan
sisters a new life-very strange, very cold
and formal, after IL life they had led with
the careless yet loving father and the de-
voted nurse. 1t was o life Of rule and rOu-
tine, of work and deprivation. The con-
vent school was a cheap school, and though
the Sisters were conscientious in their deal
ings with their pupils, the fare was Of the
poorest, the beds were hard and narrow, the
coyerletS were thin, dOmitOries draugbty
and carpetless, everything bleak and bars.
The children rose at unnatural hours in tho
cold dark mornings, and were sent to bed
early to save fire and candle. 1t was hard
life, with scarcely ray OF sunshine. Some
of the nuns we're kind and some Of the nuns
were cross, just as women are outside con-
veht-walls. There were no pleasures, there
was very little to hope for; She nuns were
too poor to afford pleasure for their pupils
Chapel and lessons lessons and chapel /;
chapel twice day, lessons alb day long;
that was the round Of life. HaH an hours
recreation now and then-just one brief
half-hour of leisure and play,if tho children
had strength to play after two long hours
bending over books, Ouzzllng oversums.
Rose bore her trials like heroine. Kath-
leen fretted good deal at FIRST and then
when she grew older aud stronger she be-
came little inclined 70 occasional out
breaks Of rebellion. She'had sweet loving
nature, and could DO ruled easily by lowe
by threats or hard usage not at ALL, Tho
nuns, happily, were fond Of her and petted
her for her beauty and brightness and grace
ful ways. While dark proud Rose, EARNEST,
thoughtful, IabOrlOus plodded on at hST
studies, always Obedient, always conscisnS
tlOus, Kathleen learnt by fits and starts, was
sometimes attentive, sometimes neglectfhl,
sometimes Industrious to fever-point, some
times incorrigibly idle. She had all the
freaks Of genius.