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bristling with bolts which only turned on its hinges in the
presence of the archbishop.
With the exception of the archbishop and the garden-
er, no man entered the convent, as we have already said.
The schoolgirls saw two others: one, the chaplain, the
Abbe Banes, old and ugly, whom they were permitted to
contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the
drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we
have perused a few lines, calls M. Anciot, and describes as a
frightful old hunchback.
It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen.
Such was this curious house.
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