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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1883)

Lefroy, William, 1836-1900 · London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday · leaf 82

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and singular, in-deed, were the observances which had won the ad-miration of the luckless Duke of Surrey. Not in thefast of eight months out of twelve, the refusal of meateven to the sick, the substitution of flannel for linenin bedding as well as clothes, lies the peculiar hard-ship of the… … WALK OF CLOISTER, common refect-ory was used, theingenuity of self-torture whichturned at a sharpangle the aper-ture in the walllest the handsor face of thebringer of thedaily pittanceshould cheer thesolitary by touchor look. Did noteven Elijah seethe ravens in his eremus ? Yetit was for thisrule,…

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