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9. My father's love for me was so great, that I could never obtain his consent; nor could the prayers of others, whom I persuaded to speak to him, be of any avail. The utmost I could get from him was that I might do as I pleased after his death. I now began to be afraid of myself, and of my own weakness--for I might go back. So, considering that such waiting was not safe for me, I obtained my end in another way, as I shall now relate.

ssss1 Matt. xx. 16: "Multi enim sunt vocati, pauci vero electi."

ssss1 Suarez, in the Monastery of the incarnation, Avila (Reforma, lib. i. ch. vii. § 7).

ssss1 Maria de Cepeda, married to Don Martin Guzman y Barrientos. They lived in Castellanos de la Cañada, where they had considerable property; but in the later years of their lives they were in straitened circumstances (De la Fuente). See below, ch. xxxiv. § 24.

ssss1 Don Pedro Sanchez de Cepeda. He lived in Hortigosa, four leagues from Avila (De la Fuente).

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Our Lord Helps Her to Become a Nun. Her Many Infirmities.