The Benedictines of Saint Claude, transformed into a chapter of canonesses, required sixteen quarterings for admission; that is to say, that every canoness must show by proper heraldic proof, that her sixteen great--grandfathers and great--grandmothers were of noble blood. [Please select]
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Or she may be one of the lay sisters of charity, a canoness, bound by an inward vow,--or the useful drudge of all men, the Martha, much sought, little prized,--or the intellectual interpreter of the varied life she sees; the Urania of a half-formed world's twilight. [Please select]
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