_Sancta Maria!_ cried the abbess (forgetting the _O!_)--why was I govern'd by this wicked stiff joint? why did I leave the convent of _Andoillets?_ and why didst thou not suffer thy servant to go unpolluted to her tomb?

'Sancta Maria!' cried the abbess, 'why was I governed by this knee? why did I leave the convent? why didst thou not let thy servant die unpolluted?'
