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—why was I not content to put it here, or there, any where rather than be in this strait?
———Strait! said the abbess.
Strait—said the novice; for terrour had struck their understandings—the one knew not what she said—the other what she answer'd.
O my virginity! virginity! cried the abbess.
———inity! ———inity! said the novice, sobbing.
CHAP.
