Santa Teresa Being Some Account of Her Life And Times Together With Some Pag
Santa Teresa Being Some Account of Her Life And Times Together With Some Pag
Gabriela Marie De La Balmondire Cunninghame Graham
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Those who expected at least to have witnessed a miracle or an ecstasy, or to have received from her lips the solution of their doubts or her pre- dictions of the future, were greatly disappointed. These great ladies, with their stiff bodices, and perfumed gloves and hand- kerchiefs, and monstrous farthingales (in those days chairs were exclusively a masculine solace), 1 felt the same profound dis- 1 See Mme. D'Aulnoy's amusing account of the social habits of the period, even so late as Philip i...v. 's time. The ladies reclined (for I doubt of their being able to 20 306 SANTA TERESA satisfaction, the same feeling of having been defrauded of a legitimate spectacle, generally experienced by those who are brought into contact for the first time with some celebrity, whose name is in all men's mouths, and who refuses to minister to their curiosity or amusement. What golden opinions might she not have won, if she had but stooped to cant and humbug ; instead of which they went off saying that she was a good, but a very ordinary nun ; nevertheless they had the uneasy feeling that this ordinary old nun who knew how to keep them at a distance, and to preserve herself with a dignity not devoid of sweetness from ill-timed impertinences and puerile curiosity, had taught them a lesson in good breeding.
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