Excerpt from An Autobiographical Sketch of a Teacher's Life: Including a Residence in the Northern and Southern States, California, Cuba and PeruThe k-veiled nuns, with their dark ¿owing the and silent corridors, with their low, mysterious looking doors - the religious services in the Choeur where the voices of the sisters mingled with the soft notes of the organ - the lighted and beautifully decorated altar - all combined to cultivate my childish fancy, and the ardent affection bordering on idolatry, which I felt for some of the kind nuns, completed the charm. Even now, worn and spent with the battle of life, it re freshes me to look back on those peaceful convent days, and could my reason yield assent to the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church, it is within those walls, that I would pass the remainder of my life. My teachers were the Mere St. A Mere St. S Mere de C Mere St. B Mere St. E. X and Mere St. T of all of whom I have the kindest recollections. The annual ex aminations, attended by relatives and friends admitted by tickets, presented a pretty scene. The immense room was generally densely packed on every side. The walls and pillars, decked with evergreen and wreathed with roses, contrasted well with the white dresses of the pupils, each class distinguished by a different colored badge, a pink, green, scarlet or blue sash, worn over the left shoulder. After the more serious exercises in the arena of art and science, the company were enlivened by variou little dramas, performed by the pupils. Then came tlr thrilling moment preceding the crowning of the victors the parting address in the rich tones of good old Fathtr Maguire, and the final announcement. Mes enfants, l.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.