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That obliged me to stop at Coblentz; but when I got down at the inn, I found that the canoness was at Manheim, while in her stead I encountered an actress named Toscani, who was going to Stuttgart with her young and pretty daughter.— The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
This was admitted to be the most probable; and all concurred in believing the countess to be at the bottom of the intended sacrifice; for although a canoness, a dignitary of a religious order, she was pronounced little better than a devil incarnate.— The Crayon Papers
a canoness, and Balzac met her while visiting in Vienna; he admired her for herself as well as for her friendship for his _Chatelaine_.— Women in the Life of Balzac
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