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HARPER'S

PORTRAIT COLLECTION

OF SHORT STORIES

VOLUME IV

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Tales of the Cloister


by
Elizabeth G. Jordan
Author of
"Tales of the City Room"


Illustrated


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New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1901

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Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.
August, 1901.

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TO

SISTER CLARE

WITH THE FRIENDSHIP

OF TWENTY YEARS

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Contents

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Illustrations

  1. ELIZABETH G. JORDAN
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    		Frontispiece
  2. "'YOU MAY LEAVE HIM,' SAID THE NUN, GENTLY"
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    		Facing p. 34
  3. "THEY HAD NOT KNOWN SHE WAS THERE"
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    		" ⁠ 42
  4. "CROONING THE LITTLE LULLABY HE HAD DEMANDED"
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    		" ⁠ 46
  5. "'WHY DON'T YOU GO TO HER?'"
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    		" ⁠ 62
  6. "THEN WE ALL STROLLED OUT TOGETHER"
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    		" ⁠ 70
  7. "'I KNOW THAT MUSIC'"
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    		" ⁠ 124
  8. SISTER PATIENCE
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    		" ⁠ 164
  9. "STANDING AT THE WINDOW OVERLOOKING THE CONVENT GARDEN"
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    		" ⁠ 182
  10. "'YOU ARE GLAD TO SEE ME?'"
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    		" ⁠ 198
  11. "SHE RANG SLOWLY AND STEADILY"
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    		" ⁠ 240
  12. "THE NUNS DRESSED DROWSILY"
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    		" ⁠ 244
  13. "THE IMP CONQUERED AND REPENTANT"
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    		" ⁠ 250


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