CATHERINE'S CONVENT

Jack, begins my Father, Mrs. Catherine is a fine WomanYes, Sir, but she is rather too oldShe will make the more discreet Manager, Boy.

But Catherine was the slave of infamous passions, and Maria Theresa was a party to the partition of Poland.

Catherine was the second daughter of François de Clèves, Duc de Nevers, and of Marguerite de Bourbon-Vendôme, the aunt of Henri IV.

Notwithstanding her increasing size and coarser voice, Catherine still remained pretty Kitty, especially in the eyes of those to whom she gave the largest credit.

The result however was that Catherine became his friend; she encouraged his confidence, and gave him good advice as an elder sister might have done.

Art); St. Catherine being the patron of the first, and St. Barbara of the last.

Catherine was the true counterpart of her father, and the most intellectual of his children, but she lacked the gentle, feminine graces, and was so wanting in tenderness and sympathy that Angelina charitably implies that her heart was sunk forever with her lover, Professor Fisher of Yale, who perished in a storm at sea.

" The Emperor was safe behind barred doors at Mopsa; Catherine was now Empress in fact as well as name.

The younger Catherine is a mixed creature, half-spiritualized by much suffering.

Catherine was, finally, a woman, and very skilful in the strifes of court and of government, whilst, on the field of battle, the victories, though won in her name, would be those of the Guises more than her own.

"I want to know if Catherine is indoors!" said she.

"The next depressing morning," continued Catherine, happily oblivious of what was passing through one's mind, "the first thing I saw, the first time I put my nose outside, was a great pink placard with 'Spion Kop Abandoned!'

the younger Catherine and Hareton Earnshaw were teacher and pupil, and so (when she taught him English) were Charlotte and M. Héger.

Catherine, in her fear lest Henry of Navarre should be some day King of France, had arranged the assassination of her son-in- law; and Charles, getting wind of this, warned him that the air of the Louvre was not good for him that night, and kept him in his company.