Author : Mrs. Henry Wood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
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ISBN : 9781333227975
Book Description
Excerpt from Oswald Cray, Vol. 1 of 3 It stood alone: the extensive gardens in front of it; the space once occupied by the chapel behind it. Alltraces of the chapel building were gone now, but its mossy gravestones were imbedded in the ground still, and the spot remained as sacred as a graveyard. The Latin inscriptions on some of these stones could be yet made out: and that on one attracted as much imaginative speculation as the famed gravestone in the cloisters of Worcester Cathedral. A few Latin words only were on it, signifying buried in misery no name, no date. Thoughtful natures would glance at that stone as they passed it, with an inward breath of hope - perhaps of prayer - that the misery experi enced by its unhappy tenant in this world, had been exchanged for a life of immortality. This graveyard was not a thoroughfare, and few cared to walk there who were absorbed in the bustle and pleasures of life; but the aged, the invalid, the mourner might be seen there on fine days, seated on its one solitary bench, and buried in solemn re ections. A short space of time, more or less, as it might happen, and they would be lying under gravestones in their turn: a short space of time, my friends, and you and I shall be equally lying there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."