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There is a Carmelite Convent in my suburb known as the Death Order.

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You must have been reading Stevenson’s Suicide Club, and then eaten cucumbers and gone to bed with the fond hope that you would not have a nightmare after all! There is a Carmelite Convent in your suburb at Dulwich Hill, but it is not a Death Order. It is an Order devoted wholly to the life which alone really counts—that of God’s grace. The Nuns are well cared for bodily, even though simply; and they attain to an age beyond that attained by the average person in the world.

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