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of some of her Tricks--Feigned Humility-- Alarm--Treatment of a new Nun--A nun made by stratagem


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


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


CHAPTER XVII.
Treatment of young Infants in the Convent--Talking in Sleep--Amusements --Ceremonies at the public interment 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


CHAPTER XVIII.
Disappearance of Nuns--St. Pierre--Gags--My temporary Confinement in a Cell--The Cholera Season--How to avoid it--Occupations in the Convent during the Pestilence--Manufacture of War Candles--The Election Riots-- Alarm among the Nuns--Preparations for defence--Penances


CHAPTER XIX.
The Priests of the District of Montreal have free access to the Black Nunnery--Crimes committed and required by them--The Pope's command to commit indecent Crimes--Characters of the Old and New Superiors--The timidity of the latter--I began to be employed in the Hospitals--Some account of them--Warning given me by a sick Nun--Penance by Hanging


CHAPTER XX.
More visits to the imprisoned Nuns--Their fears--Others temporarily put into the Cells--Reliques--The Agnus Dei--The Priests' private Hospital, or Holy Retreat--Secret Rooms in the Eastern Wing--Reports of Murders in the Convent--The Superior's private Records--Number of Nuns in the Convent--Desire of Escape--Urgent reason for it--Plan--Deliberation-- Attempt--Success


CHAPTER XXI.
At liberty--Doubtful what to do--Found refuge for the night-- Disappointment--My first day out of the Convent--Solitude-- Recollections, fears, and plans


CHAPTER XXII.
Start for Quebec--Recognised--Disappointed again--Not permitted to land --Return to Montreal--Landed and passed through the city before day-- Lachine Canal--Intended close of my life


CHAPTER XXIII.
Awake among strangers--Dr. Robertson--Imprisoned as a vagrant-- Introduction to my mother--Stay in her house--Removal from it to Mrs. McDonald's--Return to my mother's--Desire to get to New York-- Arrangements for going


CHAPTER XXIV.
Singular concurrence of circumstances, which enabled me to get to the United States--Intentions in going there--Commence my journey--Fears of my companion--Stop at Whitehall--Injury received in a canal boat-- Arrival at New York--A solitary retreat


CHAPTER XXV.
Reflections and sorrow in solitude--Night--Fears--Exposure to rain-- Discovered by strangers--Their unwelcome kindness--Taken to the Bellevue Almshouse.


CHAPTER XXVI.
Reception at the Almshouse--Message from Mr. Conroy, a Roman priest in New York--His invitations to a private interview--His claims, propositions, and threats--Mr. Kelly's message--Effects of reading the Bible


CHAPTER XXVII.
Proposition to go to Montreal and testify against the priests-- Commencement of my journey--Stop at Troy, Whitehall, Burlington, St. Alban's, Plattsburgh, and St. John's--Arrival at Montreal--Reflections on passing the Nunnery.


CHAPTER XXVIII.
Received into a hospitable family--Fluctuating feelings--Visits from several persons--Father Phelan's declarations against me in his church-- Interviews with a Journeyman Carpenter--Arguments with him


CHAPTER XXIX.
A Milkman--An Irishwoman--Difficulty in having my Affidavit taken--Legal objection to it when taken


CHAPTER XXX.
Interview with the Attorney General of the Province--Attempt to abduct me--More interviews--A mob excited against me--Protected by two soldiers--Convinced that an investigation of my charges could not be obtained--Departure from Montreal--Closing reflections The truth of the work demonstrated
APPENDIX--Reception of the work--Affidavits--Criticisms of the press, &c.

PREFACE.
Here is the reprint of one of the most formidable books against Nunneries ever published. It has produced powerful impressions abroad, as well as in the United States, and appears destined to have still greater results. It is the simple narrative of an uneducated and unprotected female, who escaped from the old Black Nunnery of Montreal, or Hotel Dieu, and told her tale of sufferings and horrors, without exaggeration or embellishment. Though assailed by all the powers of the Romish priesthood, whom she accused, and by the united influence of the North American press, which, with very small exceptions, was then unenlightened by the discoveries of the present day, the book remains unimpeached, and still challenges the test of fair and open examination.
Many an American female, no doubt, is now living, who might justly acknowledge that she was saved from exposure to the suffering, or even the ruin, often the consequences of a Convent education, by the disinterested warning given in this book; while its author, disheartened at length by the powerful combination of Protestants and Papists against her, led to distrust even the few who remained her friends, destitute of the means of living, and alternately persecuted and tempted by her ever watchful and insidious enemies, died some years since, under condemnation (whether just or unjust) for one of the slightest of the crimes which she had charged against them--thus falling at last their victim.
American parents have here a book written for the salvation of their daughters; American patriots, one designed to secure society against one of the most destructive but insidious institutions of popery; American females, an appeal to them of the most solemn kind, to beware of Convents, and all who attempt to inveigle our unsuspecting daughters into them, by the secret apparatus of Jesuit schools. The author of this book was