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CHAPTER XXXIV
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Denise soon found that the frost of Ursula’s displeasure had fallen on her, and that she was to be humiliated1 and chilled into a proper state of penitence2. The temper of the nuns3 changed to her; they came and went without speaking, their impassive faces making her feel like a child that is in disgrace. It was Ursula’s wish that Denise should be mortified4 in soul and body. Her food and drink were water and bread, and lest the devil of comfort should remain to tempt5 her to be obstinate6, they took the straw and sheets from the bed, and let her lie upon the boards.
Moral frost at such a season was like a severe night in the late spring. Denise’s need was to lie in the sun, and to be smiled upon by kind eyes. It was the warm humanism of life that she needed, sympathy, and a clasp of the hand. The utter injustice7 of the humiliation8 that they thrust upon her began to awake in her a spirit of revolt. Had she not suffered because of her innocence9, and borne what these women had never had to bear?
Why should she fall at Ursula’s feet, and pretend to a penitence that she did not feel? And Aymery, too, was she to believe that he had spoken as Ursula had said? If that was the truth, and why should Ursula lie, she, Denise, would pray that she should never be driven to look upon his face again.
Yet her bodily strength increased despite her spiritual unhappiness. The wound in the breast had healed, and she had been able to leave her bed, and move slowly round the room, steadying herself against the wall. And as her strength increased the instinct of revolt grew in her till she began to understand the mocking spirit of Marpasse. To be
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humiliation
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innocence
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oracles
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pious
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platitude
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obstinacy
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sufficiently
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truce
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knight
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condemnation
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tangle
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compassion
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tempted
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