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a monk's story. 301
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4 Hol I, Edmond Cross , Conceive A Monk ...
all without a cause , for Raymond was peculiarly beloved , and nowhere more esteemed than on a hunting-ground . At length he
found himself far away from all the train , tracking a very dark doe . Not that he had any especial wish to follow this one , but a stern
fate was upon him . The doe fled swiftly over hill and dale , into wilder and yet wilder country . The halloo of his party fell fainter
and fainter on his ear , and then died into a barren silence . Still the doe flewfleetly and more fleetly with the passing day ,
Raymond - pursuing , her , till she plunged into a thick and vast wood . Here he lost sight of her . Determined now to return , he
thought he had taken the same path back through the wood , but soon perceived he had mistaken his route . The wood became
denser . The overgrown trees stretched their immense straggling rootssliwith mossacross the narrowing pathand by their
overs , hado ppery wing foliage kep , t off the sun from the dark , weedy ponds that limmered here and thereon each sidebeneath them . All
at once g he saw something peering , among the , branches , and ere he was aware , stumbled upon an old grey mansion shock . So suddenl h he y had did
he come upon it , that he felt a kind of , as thoug it come inbut upon there something it wasa that fine had venerable life ! The statel great abode branche with s hemmed no si y gns
of decay , . What the , trees allowed , him , to perceive , of the front of itshowed that it was of splendid design and great magnitude ,
while , elaborate finish was apparent in its rich tracery and on each smallest stone , as there it stood , so silently , choked with trees , and
thin hidden Raymond stirred from entered si here ght , along and the lone vast the . walls and ancient in the hall upper breathlessl airwith y app . Some alling
life . g Still he went onfrom corridor , to " corridor , awakening , echoes -all along that lengthening , linewhich reminded him of something ,
but what he could not say . At , length he came to a vast apartment which proved to be the library . All alongso farthe trees had
, , made which a they deep stretched gloom everywhere their arms ; throug but here h the , in lofty this apartment windows against , he at
once saw a difference ; for , as he opened the door he saw it had enclosed a thick , golden sunbeam . As it glanced across the rich
tomes thick tiful pavement , golden calling forth sunbeam revealing a thousan made all d the the jew colours elled apartment tints where , and seem it lay fell quite on , this the different beau same
from , all that he had traversed . A curious conceit came into his how he mind had m ; any that opened years this the it sunbeam had wide been door was , shut and like in let a by led it prisoner fling itself to the itself in , when beautiful that across room he reflected the , ainted until hall
without , and up the rich stair that p window which now attracted his attention . While these fancies crossed his mindhe observed a peculiar
volume , exceedingly massive , open wide upon , the table , as if
inviting inspection . Pie drew a chair forward and sat down to peruse
A Monk's Story. 301
a monk ' s story . 301
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/13/
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