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Romance of the French abbeys (1905)

Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 427

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, whose presencemany years before had provoked much curi-osity, had been found here. Its position,with the knees dra,wn up, and the skullcrushed as though by an Indian war-club,seemed to imply that the mysterious strangerhad been surprised while sleeping, and hadthus met his death at the hands of… … CHAPTER XIV THE SIN OF ABBOT NICOLAS La vieillesse couronne et la mine acheve,II faut a Iedifice un passe dont on reveDeuil, triomphe ou remords. Muette en sa douleur Jumiege gravementEtouffe un triste echo sous son portail Normand, Bien souvent le passe couvre plus dun secretDont sur un mur…

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