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The painter's rencontre, on his leaving the convent, had struck him with a sad presentiment as to his _proteges_.
Without being able quite clearly to account for the sentiments he entertained for them, however unfortunate himself, he felt himself constrained to aid and succour by all means in his power, the women who, without knowing him, had so frankly claimed his protection.