CHAPTER XI.

Alarming Order from the Superior—Proceed to execute it—Scene in an upper room—Sentence of Death, and Murder—My own distress—Reports made to Friends of St. Francis 111

CHAPTER XII.

Description of the Room of the Three States, and the Pictures in it—Jane Ray ridiculing Priests—Their criminal Treatment of us at Confession—Jane Ray's Tricks with the Nuns' Aprons, Handkerchiefs, and Nightgowns—Apples . 121

CHAPTER XIII.

Jane Ray's Tricks continued—The Broomstick Ghost—Sleepwalking— Salted Cider—Changing Beds—Objects of some of her Tricks—Feigned Humility—Alarm . . . 131

CHAPTER XV.

Influencing Novices—Difficulty of convincing Persons from the United States—Tale of the Bishop in the City—The Bishop in the Convent—The Prisoners in the Cells—Practice in Singing—Narratives—Jane Ray's Hymns—The Superior's best Trick . . . . . . . . 154

CHAPTER XVI.

Frequency of the Priests' Visits to the Nunnery—Their Freedom and Crimes—Difficulty of learning their Names—Their Holy Retreat—Objections in our Minds—Means used to counteract Conscience—Ingenious Arguments . . . 167

CHAPTER XVII.

Treatment of young Infants in the Convent—Talking in Sleep—Amusements— Ceremonies at the public interments of deceased Nuns—Sudden disappearance of the Old Superior—Introduction of the new one—Superstition—Alarm of a Nun—Difficulty of Communication with other Nuns . . 174