In Our Convent Days by Agnes Repplier (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

MP3 Audio CD. In Our Convent Days Marianus I do not know how Marianus ever came to leave his native land, nor what turn of fate brought him to flutter the dovecotes of a convent school. At eleven, one does not often ask why things happen, because nothing seems strange enough to provoke the question. It was enough for me--it was enough for all of us--that one Sunday morning he appeared in little Peter's place, lit the candles on the altar, and served Mass with decent and devout propriety. Our customary torpor of cold and sleepiness--Mass was at seven, and the chapel unheated--yielded to a warm glow of excitement. I craned my white-veiled head (we wore black veils throughout the week and white on Sundays) to see how Elizabeth was taking this delightful novelty. _She_ was busy passing her prayer-book, with something evidently written on the fly-leaf, to Emily Goring on the bench ahead. Emily, oblivious of consequences, was making telegraphic signals to Marie. Lilly and Viola Milton knelt staring… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. In Our Convent Days Marianus I do not know how Marianus ever came to leave his native land, nor what turn of fate brought him to flutter the dovecotes of a convent school. At eleven, one does not often ask why things happen, because nothing seems strange enough to provoke the question. It was enough for me--it was enough for all of us--that one Sunday morning he appeared in little Peter's place, lit the candles on the altar, and served Mass with decent and devout propriety. Our customary torpor of cold and sleepiness--Mass was at seven, and the chapel unheated--yielded to a warm glow of excitement. I craned my white-veiled head (we wore black veils throughout the week and white on Sundays) to see how Elizabeth was taking this delightful novelty. _She_ was busy passing her prayer-book, with something evidently written on the fly-leaf, to Emily Goring on the bench ahead. Emily, oblivious of consequences, was making telegraphic signals to Marie. Lilly and Viola Milton knelt staring… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1905. Hardcover. 12mo, viii, 256 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is grey with gold print. Boards in grey cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners, stains on front, light shelf wear. Text block has spotting to top edge, inscription in ink on front flyleaf, tanning to endpapers, penciled marginal notation. 1369642. FP New Rockville Stock.

Boston: Houghton Miffliln, 1905. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 257. Frontis portrait. Gray cloth, printed in gilt.TEG. Owner's bookplate on pastedown.. Cover slightly worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. Reminiscences of life in a convent boarding school.

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1 . hardback. Fine. 1st ed. Boston (Houghton Mifflin) 1905. A fine copy.

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