Piercing was the glance he tent upon her.

Yet hers fell not beneath it: calm and immovable she seemed.
He lifted his hand menacingly.
"I bid you now beware of her, and her friend, the trader's wife.
They are infernal heretics, sent hither by the evil one to turn good Catholics from their duty.

I say again, beware of them!" and he struck his hand heavily on the table beside him.

"And now, my daughter, have you relieved your conscience of its burden?
Remember, one sin withheld at confession will curse you on your death-bed, and send you, unshriven, to perdition!" A sort of shudder ran through the bowed form of Inez, and in a low tone, she replied, "I also accuse myself of all the sins that may have escaped my memory, and by which, as well as those I have confessed, I have offended Almighty God, through my most grievous fault." "I enjoin upon you, as penance for the omission of the holy ordinances of our most holy church, five Credos when you hear the matin bell, twelve Paters when noon comes round, and five Aves at vespers.

These shall you repeat, kneeling upon the hard floor, with the crucifix before you, and your rosary in your hand.