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    . a monk's story. 309

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    4 Hol I, Edmond Cross , Conceive A Monk ...

    died the child last lives night / ' at I one said . o ' clock I starte , after d at g myself iving ; birth I said to it a so son assuredl . " But y ,

    and The it did attendants not seem stared to be at myself m that anner uttered but made the words haste . to l repy

    " You are wrong , father , quite my wrong , , the child was even born ,

    dead ! " At these words I shook my head , and at looked at them doubtfully ;

    _¦^ _'Was no priest called in to shrive her the last ? " " She died too suddenly for that , " they answered father , " ? and also cannot you

    the know see door Lord with and de her Bay — iven but hurst strict you , he will orders is see shut not the up a poor soul in lady shall his , room be admitted , he You has . " locked

    With many g a sigh and prayer I followed to the death-chamber . so It was that hung I could with scarce black make , the out sconces , in the were heavy few g and loom far , the from sharpened the bed ,

    _countenance of Lady de Bayhurst , which was almost hidden in her ample winding-sheet ; but there was the poor little baby , sure hlooking like a little waxen figure !

    enoug , hurst It was would long let after his old the friends death of at his the wife Abbey before even Raymond the holy de abb Bay ot

    himselfhave access to himand when he , did admit us to his , we f _& und it best , to say little of the unhappy Lady ,

    presence thanked or of the , _continued past any way so . to But his he ding was day an . altered There man was , not and , a God better be

    , y penitent son to the . Hol Nay y , Church he entered throug our hout good all house Christendom before , long nor , a and word greater died of ious monkblessed by allBut he never would a

    the a p former grief , , and it is the . best of my belief that say he was silent on it even in the confessional . But our good and wise abbot

    was more intent on making him a true penitent , than on probing old wounds . Yet his groans at times , of a night , in his cell , were

    trul B y efore awful and . after Raymond ' s death , I would often wander over the

    • I the aged old porter castle . to , relate But which it was was It was after shut a his wild up , death and November uninhabited that that afternoon occurre , save d and by which the am going ,

    . _> winds old arras shrieked upon the shrill walls y throug . Every h the thing vast looked castle bleak hall , and and shook bare where , and the

    I traces I started looked of , former and shivering roaring blood , at curdle fires the onl great d within y gave fire- me a p greater lace for , so cowering sense black of now over desolation , where .

    once had , been ray a firewith his little hands , outspread , , was a _beautiful child with long , golden hair . A very lovely child , only he cold

    looked as if he were shrunk and small for his age , as if , or while something the else little had creature nipped shivered his growth and . I lamente stood transfixed d to himself with , w awe ith could

    mot a plaintive have uttered and smal on © word voice , or addressed my life the depende weird creature on it , I before

    . A Monk's Story. 309

    . a monk's story . 309

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/21/