And now came out the lady abbess herself to inquire into the cause of this disturbance.
现在女院长亲自出来调查这场骚乱的原因。
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" Why, so I did, " replied Adriana. " Aye, " said the abbess, " but perhaps not enough" .
“为什么,我就这么做了,”阿德里安娜回答。 “是的,”修道院院长说,“但也许还不够。”
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The spot was the burial-place of a king and a queen, of abbots and abbesses, saints and bishops, knights and squires.
这个地方是国王和王后、修道院院长和女院长、圣人和主教、骑士和乡绅的墓地。
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Miss Winter's advent rather amazed her, I think, but she waved us into our respective chairs like a reverend abbess receiving two rather leprous mendicants.
Adriana stopped this melancholy procession, and cried out to the duke for justice, telling him that the abbess had refused to deliver up her lunatic husband to her care.
And the duke went with the abbess and her newly found husband and children into the convent, to hear this happy family discourse at leisure of the blessed ending of their adverse fortunes.
However, the abbess presiding over her education, in an effort to save her from wedlock, supposedly disguised Matilda as a nun so that when Rufus entered he found her hidden under the veils, compelling him to leave the church.