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their bad dreams by wandering about in the
meadows and woods in order to fatigue themselves,
and to be able to sleep. Members of
good society, well-educated ladies, even a pastor,
are among them.
Not far from us is a convent which serves as
a penitentiary and rescue home. It is a real
prison, in which the strictest rules prevail. In
the winter when the thermometer registers
twenty degrees of frost, the penitents must sleep
on the cold stone pavement of their cells, and
their hands and feet, which they cannot warm,
are covered with chilblains.
Among the others is a woman who has sinned
with a priest, which is a deadly sin. Tortured
by pangs of conscience, she flies in her despair
to her confessor, who, however, refuses her
absolution and the sacrament. A deadly sin
entails damnation. Then the wretched creature
loses her reason, imagines that she is dead,
wanders from village to village and implores
the priests to be merciful and to bury her in
consecrated ground. Shunned and driven away
everywhere, she wanders about, howling like a
wild beast, and those who see her cross themselves
and exclaim, “She is damned!” No one
doubts but that her soul is already in hell, while
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