One of poor Jordy's predictions was fulfilled,--the girl became an excellent musician.

The doctor, proud of her talent, had lately sent to Paris for a master, an old German named Schmucke, a distinguished professor who came once a week; the doctor willingly paying for an art which he had formerly declared to be useless in a household.

Unbelievers do not like music--a celestial language, developed by Catholicism, which has taken the names of the seven notes from one of the church hymns; every note being the first syllable of the seven first lines in the hymn to Saint John.
The impression produced on the doctor by Ursula's first communion though keen was not lasting.

The calm and sweet contentment which prayer and the exercise of resolution produced in that young soul had not their due influence upon him.

Having no reasons for remorse or repentance himself, he enjoyed a serene peace.