Symposium by Muriel Spark

Author:Muriel Spark [Spark, Muriel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-10-06T16:05:06+00:00

It is sad to observe that of those nine nuns of St Pancras only three were of vital interest, and that those three were fairly unprincipled. The remaining six were devout and dutiful, and two of them very sweet and trusting, but all those six were as dreary as hell.

Margaret made great progress as a novice at the Convent of Good Hope. Their mission was largely in social work, and as they had a small community and limited funds, this was mainly confined to hospital visiting. The liturgy of the morning consisted of a psalm and prayers. They busied themselves about the housekeeping, the shopping and the cooking all morning. After lunch, which was very simple and served with hot water to drink, they set forth on their visits to elderly patients who had no friends or relatives to visit them.

Margaret made herself useful as a frugal shopper. On her motor-bike she would go to buy their daily rations at Clerkenwell and Finsbury where the food shops were cheaper and the wares not much inferior.

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