More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1902)
Malan, Alfred Henry, comp · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 272
with thelonging of an absent lover. To the Trimmer, however, it is due that but a portionnow remains of the original abbey. In a letter dated from Ruf-ford, February 7, ie>8o, to his brother Henry Savile—then EnvoyExtraordinary to Louis XIV.—he begins : I am once more got to my old tenement,… … 241 IRufforfc Hbbcp 243 mend itself to your kindness, than when it was so inixt with theold ruins of the abbey that it looked like a medley of superstitionand sacriledge, and though 1 have still left some decayed front ofold building, yet there are none of the rags of Rome remaining.It is now all…
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