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HENRY OF GUISE;

OR,

THE STATES OF BLOIS.

VOL. III.

London:
Printed by A. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square

HENRY OF GUISE

OR,

THE STATES OF BLOIS.

BY

G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.

AUTHOR OF
"THE ROBBER," "THE GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL,"
ETC. ETC. ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1839.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIV.

HENRY OF GUISE;

OR,

THE STATES OF BLOIS.

CHAPTER I.

The convent of the Black Penitents was a very different buildingindeed, and a very different establishment altogether from that whichthe imagination of the reader may have raised up from the imagesfurnished by dark and mysterious tales of Italian superstition. It wascertainly intended to be, and was, in some degree, a place ofvoluntary penitence for women who conceived that they had led apeculiarly sinful life: but there were two classes of nuns confinedthere by their own good will,--one of which consisted of persons whohad mingled long with the world, and really led an irregular lifetherein; while the other comprised a number of young women of highrank, who had never known any thing, either of the pleasures or thevices which the others now fled from, but who, either by a naturalfeeling of devotion, or the urgency of relations, had devotedthemselves at an early period to the cloister.

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