Reedle Откройте в мобильном приложении
Понятно
Понятно
Для того чтобы воспользоваться закладками, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
Отмена
171
When
she
was
thirteen
,
her
father
himself
took
her
to
town
to
place
her
in
the
convent
.
They
stopped
at
an
inn
in
the
St.
Gervais
quarter
,
where
,
at
their
supper
,
they
used
painted
plates
that
set
forth
the
story
of
Mademoiselle
de
la
Valliere
.
The
explanatory
legends
,
chipped
here
and
there
by
the
scratching
of
knives
,
all
glorified
religion
,
the
tendernesses
of
the
heart
,
and
the
pomps
of
court
.
172
Far
from
being
bored
at
first
at
the
convent
,
she
took
pleasure
in
the
society
of
the
good
sisters
,
who
,
to
amuse
her
,
took
her
to
the
chapel
,
which
one
entered
from
the
refectory
by
a
long
corridor
.
She
played
very
little
during
recreation
hours
,
knew
her
catechism
well
,
and
it
was
she
who
always
answered
Monsieur
le
Vicaire
's
difficult
questions
.
Living
thus
,
without
every
leaving
the
warm
atmosphere
of
the
classrooms
,
and
amid
these
pale-faced
women
wearing
rosaries
with
brass
crosses
,
she
was
softly
lulled
by
the
mystic
languor
exhaled
in
the
perfumes
of
the
altar
,
the
freshness
of
the
holy
water
,
and
the
lights
of
the
tapers
.
Instead
of
attending
to
mass
,
she
looked
at
the
pious
vignettes
with
their
azure
borders
in
her
book
,
and
she
loved
the
sick
lamb
,
the
sacred
heart
pierced
with
sharp
arrows
,
or
the
poor
Jesus
sinking
beneath
the
cross
he
carries
.
173
She
tried
,
by
way
of
mortification
,
to
eat
nothing
a
whole
day
.
She
puzzled
her
head
to
find
some
vow
to
fulfil
.
Отключить рекламу
174
When
she
went
to
confession
,
she
invented
little
sins
in
order
that
she
might
stay
there
longer
,
kneeling
in
the
shadow
,
her
hands
joined
,
her
face
against
the
grating
beneath
the
whispering
of
the
priest
.
The
comparisons
of
betrothed
,
husband
,
celestial
lover
,
and
eternal
marriage
,
that
recur
in
sermons
,
stirred
within
her
soul
depths
of
unexpected
sweetness
.
175
In
the
evening
,
before
prayers
,
there
was
some
religious
reading
in
the
study
.
On
week-nights
it
was
some
abstract
of
sacred
history
or
the
Lectures
of
the
Abbe
Frayssinous
,
and
on
Sundays
passages
from
the
"
Genie
du
Christianisme
,
"
as
a
recreation
.
How
she
listened
at
first
to
the
sonorous
lamentations
of
its
romantic
melancholies
reechoing
through
the
world
and
eternity
!
If
her
childhood
had
been
spent
in
the
shop-parlour
of
some
business
quarter
,
she
might
perhaps
have
opened
her
heart
to
those
lyrical
invasions
of
Nature
,
which
usually
come
to
us
only
through
translation
in
books
.
But
she
knew
the
country
too
well
;
she
knew
the
lowing
of
cattle
,
the
milking
,
the
ploughs
.
176
Accustomed
to
calm
aspects
of
life
,
she
turned
,
on
the
contrary
,
to
those
of
excitement
.
She
loved
the
sea
only
for
the
sake
of
its
storms
,
and
the
green
fields
only
when
broken
up
by
ruins
.
177
She
wanted
to
get
some
personal
profit
out
of
things
,
and
she
rejected
as
useless
all
that
did
not
contribute
to
the
immediate
desires
of
her
heart
,
being
of
a
temperament
more
sentimental
than
artistic
,
looking
for
emotions
,
not
landscapes
.
Отключить рекламу
178
At
the
convent
there
was
an
old
maid
who
came
for
a
week
each
month
to
mend
the
linen
.
Patronized
by
the
clergy
,
because
she
belonged
to
an
ancient
family
of
noblemen
ruined
by
the
Revolution
,
she
dined
in
the
refectory
at
the
table
of
the
good
sisters
,
and
after
the
meal
had
a
bit
of
chat
with
them
before
going
back
to
her
work
.
The
girls
often
slipped
out
from
the
study
to
go
and
see
her
.
She
knew
by
heart
the
love
songs
of
the
last
century
,
and
sang
them
in
a
low
voice
as
she
stitched
away
.
179
She
told
stories
,
gave
them
news
,
went
errands
in
the
town
,
and
on
the
sly
lent
the
big
girls
some
novel
,
that
she
always
carried
in
the
pockets
of
her
apron
,
and
of
which
the
good
lady
herself
swallowed
long
chapters
in
the
intervals
of
her
work
.
They
were
all
love
,
lovers
,
sweethearts
,
persecuted
ladies
fainting
in
lonely
pavilions
,
postilions
killed
at
every
stage
,
horses
ridden
to
death
on
every
page
,
sombre
forests
,
heartaches
,
vows
,
sobs
,
tears
and
kisses
,
little
skiffs
by
moonlight
,
nightingales
in
shady
groves
,
"
gentlemen
"
brave
as
lions
,
gentle
as
lambs
,
virtuous
as
no
one
ever
was
,
always
well
dressed
,
and
weeping
like
fountains
.
For
six
months
,
then
,
Emma
,
at
fifteen
years
of
age
,
made
her
hands
dirty
with
books
from
old
lending
libraries
.
180
Through
Walter
Scott
,
later
on
,
she
fell
in
love
with
historical
events
,
dreamed
of
old
chests
,
guard-rooms
and
minstrels
.