Elizabeth Charles Quote

She makes long, long prayers, they say — so long that she has been found in the morning fainting on the cold floor of the convent church.... They all say she will have a very high place in heaven; but it seems to me, unless there is a very great difference between the highest and lowest places in heaven, it is a great deal of trouble to take.


Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family (1863)


She makes long, long prayers, they say — so long that she has been found in the morning fainting on the cold floor of the convent church.... They...

She makes long, long prayers, they say — so long that she has been found in the morning fainting on the cold floor of the convent church.... They...

She makes long, long prayers, they say — so long that she has been found in the morning fainting on the cold floor of the convent church.... They...

She makes long, long prayers, they say — so long that she has been found in the morning fainting on the cold floor of the convent church.... They...