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    self was within the walls , and the town was therefore desecrated for ever , Martin close at hand !—The news conveyed anything but dismay to Liese . Martin at hand !—was that all ? No ; it was not all . The truth must , after much hesitation , be told , though too dreadful to pass mortal lips without trembling . He was not alone , nor was Melancthon with him . Would he were , rather than the one who was with him : it was no other than—his wife i So Luther had married too . Carlostadius had been the first of the eminent reformers to do so , and Melancthon had followed the example two years ago . Luther had approved of the step in each , but had declared that he should retain his vow . Liese

    wondered . e I wonder at nothing , my daughter , that the arch-heretic does ; but my shame is for his wife ;—for her who was devoted even later than you ; who but lately , as it seems to me , besought my lblessing when I bade her farewell . I did indeed give her up when she fled her convent ; but her marriage is an atrocity I could not have conceived of one who once valued my blessiug . ' Liese listened in anxiety for the name . * Catherine de Boria I' she cried , My playfellow , my friend ,

    my sister , Catherine ! How I have longed to learn what became of her after the flight of the sisters from Nimptschen ! I know not whether to rejoice or sorrow that she is so near . I cannot depart without seeing her , and I fear lest I should no longer be able to esteem her . '

    Liese was firm in her decision to see her former friend : resisting the Abbess ' s wrath only by quiet determination . She had so much respect to her feelings , however , as to request Helena to remain with her , Liese was glad that her errand of charity must be discharged first , as she wished to compose her mind for the interview with her former friend , whom she could not have conceived she could ever meet with so little confidence as at present . She had just said to Helena , I can but return , if she fails to satisfy me . I have no doubt I shall return presently , and it will be a comfort to me to have bid her farewell . It can do me no harm just to see her . If I find her changed—sadly changed , the question of this kind of marriage will be set at rest in my mind , you know , which it may not be without . Surely it can do me no harm . '

    * Surely not ; go , and I would fain go with you / was Helena s reply . Luther was so accustomed to meet in society with released nuns , that they now attracted his attention no more than strangers of any other class . He had mentioned to . Catherine that he had fallen in with some at Nuremberg , but he had not described them so particularly as to lead her to guess that one of them might be her friend Lieee . She had , besides , always considered liese so v 4

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    Liese . ; or , the Progress of Worship . B 27

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/39/