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BROOKE'S DAUGHTER.

CHAPTER I.

THE END OF HER CHILDHOOD.

The Convent of the Annonciades, situated in a secluded spot on the
outskirts of Paris, has long been well reputed as an educational
establishment for young ladies of good family. The sisters themselves
are women of refinement and cultivation, and the antecedents of every
pupil received by them are most carefully inquired into: so carefully,
indeed, that admission to the Convent School is looked on almost as a
certificate of noble birth and unimpeachable orthodoxy. The Ladies of
the Annonciades have indeed lately relaxed their rules, so far as to
receive as parlor-boarders some very rich American girls and the
children of a Protestant English marquis; but wealth in the first
instance, and birth in the second, counterbalance the objections that
might be raised to their origin or their faith. These exceptions to the
rule are, however, few and far between; and, in spite of the levelling
tendencies of our democratic days, Annonciades Convent is still one of
the most exclusive and aristocratic establishments of the kind in
Europe.

Although we know too well that small-minded jealousy, strife, and
bickering must exist in a community of women cut off so entirely from
the outer world as in this Convent of the Annonciades, it must be
confessed that the very name and air of the place possess a c