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eONPESSION(\L OF VALOMBRE. 1S9. CHAP. VL Mercy — — Is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, when mercy seasons justice. Shakespeare. ^*' There is a strange mystery o'ercloud- ing the actions of sister Laiirette/* said the nun Lucille, seating herself by the side of Juliette, " an inconsistency of character^ which baffles all our attempts at elucidation. Sometimes the tear of penitence hangs trembling in her eye; then the fiery gust of passion distorts her f...eatures, and betrays the undying influ- ence of revenge : sometimes depressed^ even to the sombre gloom of melancholy, she shrinks from the obtrusive kindness of compassion, and buries her sorrows and 140 CONFESSIONAL OF VALOMBEE. and her plaints in joyless solitude; then again she bursts forth in the language of reproachj accusing Heaven with injus- tice, and man with barbarity. Nay, often -" *' Unhappy Laurette !'* interrupted Juliette,* '* is all her life thus spent in misery ? does no intervening hour of content lighten the lingering horror of inaction ?" *' Oh no!" rejoined the sister: '^ tur- bulent and ungovernable, she exists the slave of passion, or the sport of woe.
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