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knowest not (and here my teaching was in fault) that no Butter- 

 fly ever yet issued from a caterpillar's skin no crawling worm 

 ever yet changed, at once, into a glorious flutterer. The greedy 

 caterpillar must put off, first, his gross and grovelling nature ; 

 his sensual delights of cabbage or of nettle must become to 

 him as nothing." 



" Look here," he continued, plucking from off an angle of 

 the castle wall a suspended chrysalis " look at this seemingly 

 lifeless creature this aurelia, shut up in its gilded skin, and 

 shut out from the creeping and flying things around it. You 

 deem it dead ; but its energies are now in fullest action, its 

 various parts are maturing, and it will soon join its winged 



brethren in the sky. 



****** 



A few years saw the baron converted into a reverend brother 

 of the same order, and an inmate of the same monastery, as 

 Father Ambrose. 



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