61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE(1 / 3)

"Monigneur,

Let your Eminenbsp;be reassured. His Grabsp;the Duke of Bugham WILL NOT SET OUT for France.

"MILADY DE ----

"BOULOGNE, evening of the twenty-fifth.

"P.S.--Acc to the desire of your Eminenbsp;I report to the vent of the Carmelites at Bethune, where I will await your orders."

Accly, that same evening Milady enbsp;her journey. Night overtook her; she stopped, and slept at an inn. At five o''clobsp;the m she again proceeded, and in three hours after entered Bethune. She inquired for the vent of the Carmelites, and went thither immediately.

The superior met her; Milady showed her the cardinal''s order. The abbess assigned her a chamber, and had breakfast rved.

All the past was effabsp;from the eyes of this woman; and her looks, fixed on the future, beheld nothing but the high fortunes rerved for her by the cardinal, whom she had so successfully rved without his name being in any way mixed up with the sanguinary affair. The ever-new passions whibsp;ed her gave to her life the appearanbsp;of tho clouds whibsp;float in the heavens, refleg sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blaess of the tempest, and whibsp;leave no trabsp;upon the earth behind them but devastation ah.

"Monigneur,

Let your Eminenbsp;be reassured. His Grabsp;the Duke of Bugham WILL NOT SET OUT for France.

"MILADY DE ----

"BOULOGNE, evening of the twenty-fifth.

"P.S.--Acc to the desire of your Eminenbsp;I report to the vent of the Carmelites at Bethune, where I will await your orders."

Accly, that same evening Milady enbsp;her journey. Night overtook her; she stopped, and slept at an inn. At five o''clobsp;the m she again proceeded, and in three hours after entered Bethune. She inquired for the vent of the Carmelites, and went thither immediately.

The superior met her; Milady showed her the cardinal''s order. The abbess assigned her a chamber, and had breakfast rved.

All the past was effabsp;from the eyes of this woman; and her looks, fixed on the future, beheld nothing but the high fortunes rerved for her by the cardinal, whom she had so successfully rved without his name being in any way mixed up with the sanguinary affair. The ever-new passions whibsp;ed her gave to her life the appearanbsp;of tho clouds whibsp;float in the heavens, refleg sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blaess of the tempest, and whibsp;leave no trabsp;upon the earth behind them but devastation ah.