She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her confessor confirmed the idea which she had conceived.

Accordingly, a few months after your departure for Ingolstadt, Justine was called home by her repentant mother.

Poor girl! She wept when she quitted our house; she was much altered since the death of my aunt; grief had given softness and a winning mildness to her manners, which had before been remarkable for vivacity.

Nor was her residence at her mother's house of a nature to restore her gaiety.

The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.