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>> Brie Carlisle: Take a look, in the book and let's see
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what we can find.
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Take it chapter by chapter. One
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fight M at a time
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so many adventures and
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mountains we can climb
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to give word for word, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Welcome to bite at a time books where we read you your
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favorite classics one byte at a time. my name is
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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
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continuing. Les miserables by
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Victor Hugo chapter
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three austerities
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one is a postulant for two years at
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least, often for four a
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novice for four. It is rare that the definitive
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vows can be pronounced earlier than the age of 23
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or 24 years. The Bernardines,
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Bernadictings of Martin Virga, do not admit
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widows to their order. In their cells they
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deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations
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of which they must never speak. On the
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day when a novice makes her profession, she is
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dressed in her handsomest attire. She is
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crowned with white roses. Her hair is brushed
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until it shines and curled.
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Then she prostrates herself,
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a great black veil is thrown over her, and the
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office for the dead is sungdez. Then the
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nuns separate into two files. One
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file passes close to her, saying in plaintive
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accents, our sister is dead. And the other
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file responds in a voice of ecstasy, our sister is
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alive in Jesus Christ. At the
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epoch when this story takes place, a boarding
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school was attached to the convent, a boarding school
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for young girls of noble and mostly wealthy
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families, among whom could be remarked
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Mademoiselle de Saint Adler and de,
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Blissen, and an english girl
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bearing the illustrious catholic name of Talbot.
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These young girls, reared by these nuns between
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four walls, grew up with a horror of the
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world and of age. One of them said to
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us one day, the sight of the street pavement
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made me shudder from head to foot. They were dressed in
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blue, with a white cap and a holy
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spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their
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breast. On certain grand festival
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days, particularly St. Marthas Day,
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they were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme
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happiness, to dress themselves as nuns and to
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carry out the offices and practice of Saint Benoit for a
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whole day. In the early days, the nuns were
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in the habit of lending them their black garments.
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This seemed profane, and the prioress forbade
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it. Only the novices were permitted to
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lend. It is remarkable that these
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performances tolerated and encouraged,
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no doubt, in a convent out of a secret spirit of
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proselytism. And in order to give these children
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a foretaste of the holy habit were a genuine
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happiness and a real recreation for the scholars.
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They simply amused themselves with it.
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It was new. It gave them a change.
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Candid reasons of childhood which do not, however,
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succeed in making us worldlings comprehend
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the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in ones
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hand and standing for hours together, singing
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hard enough for four in front of a reading desk.
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The pupils conformed, with the exception
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of the austerities, to all the practices of the
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convent. There was a certain young
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woman who entered the world and who, after many
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years of married life, had not succeeded in breaking herself of
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the habit of saying in great haste whenever anyone
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knocked on her door forever.
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Like the nuns, the pupils saw their relatives only in the
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parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain
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permission to embrace them. The following
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illustrates to what a degree severity on that point was
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carried. One day a young girl received a
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visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister
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three years of age. The young girl
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wept for, She wished greatly to embrace her
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sister. Impossible.
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She begged that at least the child might be permitted to pass her
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little hand through the bars so that she could kiss
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it. This was almost
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indignantly it refused.
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Thank you for joining bite at a time books today while
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we read a.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Bite of one of your favorite classics.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Again, my name is Brie Carlisle,
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and.
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>> Brie Carlisle: I hope you come back tomorrow for.
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>> Brie Carlisle: The next bite of le miserable.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Dont forget to sign up for our
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>> Brie Carlisle: M
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adventures and mountains we
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can climb
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take your word forward line by.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Line, one bite at a time.
