Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-02-24

ters q the heart,
which marks the
Breton ehzrae-
ter The tale was related 70 her bF
one OF ker friends. the daughter Of
the heroine, whom / VIII cal Emma
RoSiiis
She wzs not perfectly beautiful but
her face lad an undesirable charm
Her eyes had the mast exquisite soft
ness ard her delicate eyebrows al
nost seemed 20 possess a soul. while
her skin vas 81 fine that i betrayed
The slightest agitation b. fugitive
Oinshc&
Little Enma Rosilis Eent regularly
70 church with her book OF hours. and
the train IS that toward the age
Of sixteen Or eighteen there was no
place II her little soui bat fer one
young man. Of abOnt twenty or TWEEN
ty-two. whom she saw often and whom
! xiii call Emilien-
Emma had known Enlien ever
since she had known herself More
over she dreamed what she did not
think, antil i happened one day that
she found Eznilien was occupying the
entire cavity Of her little heart
The Young man whom she loved had
a good. though nota strong. nature;
bot his simplicity, his absence Of all
pretenee, were most pleasing 70
Emma she had not known any
young man superior 70 him, and. in
deed, in the little world where she
moved she had not met many young
men Of any kind
This lore Of Emma's soon became
most absorbing. During entire days
she would remain motionless, almost
as though she we're in trance. dream
Ing Of he- beloved Naturally
she said nothing OF what
she experienced. either to the one
she loved, or to her relations,
or to her com panions Her discretion
was So absolute that no one knew any
thing Of what filed her
While Emma lived only IN her love
for Elniiien. he thought little Of her
He found her pleasing. ss did all the
word, Dat he neTer thought OF telling
her so
He was a commcnp. ace and passive
being, and then, after ali. was he to
biame9 Emma was 50 modest that
she could scarcely be distinguished
from her friends-you would have
said she sought only 10 hide herself
One day, while she was talking with
her companions at a little reunion at
the foot Of the garden. many things
were spoken Of The news which had
a freshness for all was the approach
ing marriage Of Emiiien 70 Anna NJ.
10 was spoken Of as a certain thing.
Emma heard It all Such was the
control which she had over herself,
however, that no one suspected that =
pOniard had entered her heart She
was qrie1. arose a little while after
and retired without giving any sign
of the frightful wound which she had
Just received
Another DIT OF news was circulated
few days after, IN the company Of
the same Young people, assem- bIed in
the same garden Emma had entered
as novice into the cofIiEnunitv Of Ersu-
lines Of the little village Of L. As
she was very pious, this SIR -rised no
one. Her secre. had belonged 50 ex-
clusively 70 herself that no one re-
preached her. The idea occurred "a
no one that the marriage of Emilien
was the cause of her consecrating her.
self % religion
Eahe convent Of the Ursulines ad.
lnitted divers degrees Of religious vo-
cations. BE- the side Of the sisters
bound to the order By a perpetual
vow. there were pious PERSONS wear
ing 4 costume which was Ike that OF
the order, minus the veil These
prscticed the same obserFances. with
out assuming any permanent obliga-
tions. The greater part took the
vows at the end Of some years. but
there was more than one example Of
devoted sisters who re-entered the
world after years spent in the con
vent
It was into this class 81
sisters that poor Emma en-
tered Everything was as usual il
her admission, in her uOvitiate, in
her conduct in the convent
She became devOtce Of the mos
perfect regularity, pious as the others
never In fault, esteemed b. her su-
perio.s Her pale face. IN the white
linen which surrounded il. had the
beatific calm characteristic Of the sis.
terhood- AssiduOus in prayers and
in all other piOus exercises. she yield
ed quickly to the religious habits o.
the elOister. At the end Of some days
the slow and monOtonous routine d
the regular convent life had dulleC
her sensibiIities, and her ordinary
state became kind OF gentle sleep
Had she succeeded in driving from
her heart the image which had cap
tured her whole being?
After a fashion-yet she had no
even tried The suspicion came no
to her for an instant that her love was
cul1.able. II was, as in the canticles
"a bouquet OF myrrh in her bosom.
She would have doubted God. rather
than her right to this sentime ut whicl
filled her. She distinguished not he
love from her piety nor her piety from
her love. She even tasted in her aus
terities an additional charm Shl
found in wouuding herself a sort .
delight She experienced an intens'
ioy I'm believing that she suffered al
this for ths one she loved, and in say
ing that she saw no other man bH
him. Such was the innocenes ant
purity Of her imagination that neve
a scruple came 70 her for her dream
of love She WAS so certain of beiHi
right that she never felt Obliged Z
accuse herself to her confessor
Thus FIVE years rolled by, withOn
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