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retired making the staircase shake
with his noble tread.
II.
Amelia Etelvira de Quadros. daugh-
ter of the Heritor the Marquis Maria
de Ouadros-the family is now extinct
was one of the most beautiful of the
family which for generations had been
known in the Azores for charity, learn
ing and the beauty of it's women. True,
there had been a few demented chill
dren, bur no Azorean family, in the day
when the Story had it's making, was
without that tragedy.
Ameia-later known as Sister Anne
LA de Purificacao-at II, was a girl
VINO, like her sisters of the Azores,
was slightly dark. Under her olive skin
the blood flushed redly. Rant health
was hers. She smiled easily and cheer
| 1uliy, and her Observation-Disclosures story
OF her life may still be found in the
archives of the Church of the st. John
says of her: Her lips reminded one
ol the Hover of the pomegranate, and
her regular and perfect figure was well
rounded and had a singular enchant-
ment."
mere was almost a scandal at the
tlne OF the entrance of Amelia as a
novice at the convent. Again her BIZ
ographer says: "She was dragged,
rather than coming of her own will,
10 the church, and her father shouted
worse than lost soul. Her uncle, a
ranciscan friar, blessed her more than
Yen umes, and her mother, an old no
pIeWoman from the Island of Terceira,
burnt many candles to Santa Catha-
ma mat she should give some sense
~ the girl. The servants of the house
we're running about for a week in a
living ring, carrying letters, now to
Sne convent, and from there to the au-
ultor and from him to the military
SoINernor, who at that time united in
t,ieI divers powers-commanding
,n o1IPs' sanctioning marriages and
making friars"
=. amelia resigned herself to enter the
ltter which was to carry her to the
nurch' She declared, however, that
iie would go in as novice, not be-
sause she wished to be a nun, but
lneiely TO free herself from the dis
IIsIeeable life which she had been
ieSqing at her own home.
NeedhWhlle Alfredo, her lover
sUutI employed in an English house
i, n Diished in the islands for the trade
r, tIco Wines had been informed of
,%n3t was going on. Despite the vigil
boe OF Amelias family, the two ex-
ss,,"ilsed letters, and still more freely
a a. she entered the convent. and had
~. ner disposal more leisure hours in
r ninlch she could write. 1t was a sim
NM p'v matter to bride the servants-all
must live.
'uella S term of novitiate, however,
=, craving to a close. The catechising
~ me convent became more stringent,
'iT n, hours of prayer longer.
"e novice let them talk-talk much
~ reVerent attitude In a beatifiC
r.euce seated in big chair, with her
sr,ii'y mead leaning back. and with a
H.. OF acquiescence on her lips. she
bsossned. But while they explained to
~ the subtleties of the heavy old
SIS bound i'm smooth white leather,
NJ 60 Knew not If they were telling her
p, a. Chroysostom or ST. Anthony of
Trr4ua Instead Of the asceticism of a
,,., aspplst' she was delighting herself
49, very different visions. She saw
i IN. fun OF light and fiowers-grow-
ors Vineyards and medlars, figs and
H.. lses and the loquot--soft. moon
~"' nights, when the lips Of those