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They had no desire, no power, no exercise
or earning their own bread: or of becoming
human beings at all: farther than as
cyphers ranged after the first figure
who was a Soeur.
[There were large Barracks near: & the
Soeurs stated themselves to me that
if the girls above 12 or 13 were allowed
to go beyond their own walls, they invariably
fell a prey to the Soldiers' vice: