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in tragedy. Since we had been associated together in the line he invariably had some
story to tell me, and to-day was no exception to the rule.
Have you repiarked," he asked, what a really delightful place this must have
been in peace times The ancient Convent within whose lichened walls stood the old
church, embellished by its beautiful figures of stone its quaint little many-coloured
bouses with their picturesque gables, their little orchards and flower-beds the quaint
well and water pumps, with all their old-world atmosphere of peace and retirement."
Yes," I said, glad to get to a subject to take me from the thoughts of my after
noon's shelling. Once I took my chances and went round the old convent garden, up
its little tiled, box-tree bordered paths." (And since the enemy have been driven back
J have walked there again, and tasted of its pears which are scarcely yet ripe.)
Indeed, it is still reminiscent of beauty, for nature defies extinction," Dobbinson
said. It is green in places, and portions of the old wall still remain, with rude, torn ends
standing out prominently, as if in rebuke to those cruel hands which have wrought such
devastation on this poor land."
The marvellous thing to me is that the Convent Gate is still intact, except for its
blue doors, only a few splinters of which remain. There are two figures cut from the
square stone set in the tympanum, and in between the figures is a carving of a casque."
Which seems to point to the fact that some saintly knights were the authors of
this ancient structure," said Dobbinson, with the grace of a man wise in the architecture
of ancient habitations.
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