Read it through once

“The ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’, is a picture (ghastly in its evident truth) of superstition which has survived religion; of a heart which has abandoned the love of kindred and friends, only to lose itself in a wilderness of petty spite, terminating in an abyss of diabolical hatred. The ordinary providential helps to goodness have been rejected; the ill-provided adventurer has sought to scale the high snow-peaks of saintliness,--he has missed his footing,-- and the black chasm which yawns beneath, has ingulfed him.” --E. J. H{asell}, in St. Paul’s Magazine, December, 1870.