ABSTRACT
The Sieur d’Antail had by his first wife two daughters, Louisa, and Henrietta. As he was possessed of an affluent fortune, and fond of his children, he spared no expence in their education. Louisa lost her mother when she was about thirteen or fourteen; and her father soon after married again. Louisa d’Antail obtained the appointment of superior to the branch of the community, and removed thither with great satisfaction, not only because her high spirit made the rigorous subordination to which she was subject in the convent very disagreeable to her, but because she could enjoy, together with more power, more liberty in her new abode. The nuns, in whom her disinclination to the service of the cloister, and the coldness of her manner towards them, had occasioned a great dislike, saw her departure with pleasure.
