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Lucie: If you’re going to leave the Convent – would you like to visit us? Grandmère allowed me to have Jeanne stay with me, when her mother was ill. If we ask her, maybe she can help you.
Sr. Thérèse: That’s a kind thought of you, but I really can’t…
Abbess: I don’t have anything to say round here any more, but you have my permission to take the girl’s offer. These are desperate times. Every one of you who’s with a kind and decent family would be a burden taken off my mind.
Sr. Thérèse: But the Bishop…
Abbess: The Bishop is in prison and sure to be guillotined. He will forgive us for not sending him a request for permission right now.
Lucie: What is this, an ammunition factory?
Sr. Thérèse: Ammunition is another word for bullets and gunpowder. If it were to be a hospital, or even any other factory, I could stay and work, but not for this!
Lucie: Please don’t cry! You’re our teacher!
Sr. Thérèse: If things get very bad, Lucie, even teachers may cry.
Soldiers: In the name of the Republic, all convents are disbanded. Our wise and provident Government has come to the conclusion, this popish religion is a lie. You are now free women. Go and make yourselves useful as wives or workers! This building will be required to house an ammunition factory. You have 24 hours to evacuate the place and to hand over all valuables to Monsieur l’Inspecteur.
Béatrice: Thank you. That’s very generous.
Sr. Thérèse: Knowledge is a wonderful treasure. But we must always remember that a treasure can only do good if we share it with others. People in our times – like the committees in Paris – look at us suspiciously and ask why people of the Church should have wealth and knowledge. And indeed we are only worthy of them if we share. Is there a special reason you want to learn Latin?
Béatrice: Yes, my Papa says it’s a wonderful language and he’s trying to teach it to my brother. He says it opens our way to wonderful works of art, and you can understand people who are long long dead. And I hope I may one day be able to talk about something that interests him. I’d so love to have a real conversation with my Papa.
Béatrice: Please, when are we going to start Latin?
Sr. Thérèse: Er – not in this form. But I studied some Latin in preparation for taking the veil. Maybe the Mother Abbess will allow me to offer a class. I will ask her, and you must ask your parents first.
Béatrice: But will I have to take the veil if I learn Latin?
Sr. Thérèse: Not necessarily. I studied it to teach – to anyone who wants to learn.
Child Sleep Poses by Elsia - fixes and add-ons
I used this posepack in my story recently and came across two bugs: Some positioning data was lost, so the poses were way away from the bed, and the eyeballs tended to protrude through the lids. As I exported them to fix this, I also added the variations with -a. I used these for girls in nightshirts, so the leg being up on the bed looked better. And since I had 3 and 4 in the same Blender project, I noticed they could be made combinable quite easily.
So this became one of those fixes which I thought might be useful to other storytellers too. I tried to track down the original poster, but even with community-help had no success. If the original creator would like me to take these down, I will of course.
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François: I don’t like this language. The people who spoke it are long dead. Why do I need it if I can’t use it to talk to anyone?
Nicolas: Oh, you may have to talk in Latin if you want the clergymen in Rome to show your their treasures. You need it to prove you’re not just anyone, you’re a gentleman of breeding and learning.
François: By saying things like “Ancilla clamant”?
Béatrice: It’s “clamat”!
Nicolas: Oh, go and play, you’re too young to understand!
François: “Discipuli clamant” I’ve forgotten what “discipuli” is.
Béatrice: The students! They are shouting!
Nicolas: Oh Béatrice! Shouldn’t you be off to school?
(a few days later)
François (reads): “Ancilla saltat.” Er… the servant… no, the servantess – salutes.
Nicolas: No. Read it again.
François: The servantess … jumps? Why does she jump? Servants don’t jump.
Nicolas: It doesn’t matter! It’s a grammar example!
Lucie: Béatrice says the people on the cart were going to be killed for saying something wrong. Is that true?
André: I’m afraid it is. That’s why we don’t speak on the street any more.
Lucie: But that’s horrible! I almost got us all killed!
Marianne: Oh, they don’t arrest little girls who say “pourquoi”.
Lucie: But how do I know what’s the wrong thing to say? Everything I say seems right to me when I say it!
André: It’s things about politics. Don’t worry too much about it; you don’t usually talk about politics anyway. But nowadays politics include what you see happening in the streets.
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Scared Child Poses
Request by Anon :
“I would like to request child poses where child A got scared by a small animal and grabbed child B’s arm. And when both child looked at each other, Child B smiles gently to Child A.”
And @mysimsanity (paraphrased): A child hugging another with sudden emotion, but after a moment of surprise the hug is returned.
Update April 15th 2024: Updated codes, but didn’t change existing poses. Added 6ab and a variation I made for my story: A child covering another’s mouth and pulling them backwards. As child B in my story was height-slidered, I had to custom-tailor the pose to have the hand on the mouth (6a1,b1). For wider usability, I also made the pose for regular-sized children (6ab). The smaller child is slidered roughly to -140. Even so the pose sinks into the ground by default and has to be moved up with an omsp.
Pair 6 is also centred differently because I used 4b as a base for the child bent backwards.
List, nolist, codes and previews are included.
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Updated this to current preview- and code-standards and added the pose from today's update.
Sr. Thérèse: Lucie, it’s not appropriate to put it like this! I’d better introduce introduce myself. My name is Thérèse and I was brought up in this convent. When I was a girl I attended classes just like you and as I grew up I felt it my calling to join the Order. It’s my family after all and I’m at home here. And I’m behind the divider, because on this side it’s the Convent, and on your side it’s a public building. Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to teach you.
Béatrice: Pleased to meet you, Madame Sœur Thérèse.
(more giggles in the classroom)
Lucie: Please excuse my cousin. She’s very shy, because she’s never been to a convent. Perhaps it’s better if I introduce you. This is Sœur Thérèse and although she’s behind bars and you can only see her face, she’s a real person and very nice.
(stifled giggles in the classroom)
Sr. Thérèse: We have a new girl in our class today: Béatrice de Montigny. Béatrice, would you like to tell us something about yourself?
Béatrice (fearfully): Rather not.
Sr. Thérèse: Well, I can’t force you, but I hope your answers to other questions will be more elaborate.
Béatrice: Those people on the cart – they’re going to be killed for saying something wrong. If we don’t watch our tongues, they’ll come and fetch Maman and Papa and everyone else.
Lucie: That’s … that’s not true. You’re trying to scare me.
Béatrice: It is true. Please don’t talk in the streets any more.
Lucie: All right. Sœur Thérèse says good girls should be quiet anyway.
Marianne: Béatrice, it’s not ladylike to wrestle with your cousin. Lucie, remember what we talked about at home.