Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 194
dimly-lighteddormitory into the solemn church, or in the cloisterswe see brother washing tin- feet of brother or shavinghis beard and tonsure, or all together sit and waitfor the welcome knocking by which the prior or hisdeputy summons them to the refectory. 1 •• Nullus ii. nda <li\eit.u pedes… … Jervaulx 177 And so beneath the veil of seeming uniformitythe human forms and individual hearts begin toassert themselves ; and one cowled figure is knownas a repentant libertine, another as an innocent andchildlike dreamer, and a third as a fierce old warriorwith battered body and bloodstained…
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