The Argosy Vol 25 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 25: January to June, 1878 The abbey was built in the form of a quadrangle 3 a solid square stone building, with a turret at each corner. The entrance gates, Of massive iron, stood in the middle of the front, or east pile. Enter ing these gates, and passing their dark, spacious archway, to the square opening that lay in the midst of the building, we see how large it is. Each side contains rooms enough for a numerous household. Standing with our faces to the entrance gates, the chief, or east pile lies before us, and its corner turret to our left hand as we stand, is called the East Tower. The north wing lies between the east and the north towers 3 the west wing lies between the north and the west towers (and which west wing forms the back of the structure); and the south wing, lying to our right between the west and south towers, brings us back to the front and starting point. Of these various piles, or sides, or wings, as you may please to call them, only the front and the north are inhabited at present, though all (save the west) are furnished for occupation in a greater or lesser degree. The rooms in the west wing, and more particularly those in the west tower, have the reputation of being haunted; and for a long time past no one has lived in them. It should also be said that this west wing, though apparently looking as large as the other wings to us who stand in the Open quadrangle below, is a very deceptive wing. For it is not half the width of the other wings 3 and the rooms, instead of being numerous, are few, and all of them look out upon the abbey itself, and the quadrangle it encloses, there being no windows 'whatever at the back. AS to the quadrangle itself, with its grassy flooring, if that term may be allowed, it looks exactly like a gloomy grave-yard enclosed by cloisters. All round the quadrangle, between the abbey and the grass, lie roofed Cloisters supported by pillars; their casements are unglazed, open to the quadrangle doors lead from it into the quadrangle in places, as they do from the Cloisters into the house. 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.