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I hoped so I earnestly prayed so. And to that end I took no notice, but let it silently grow. The June evening came and went. The service-bell rang out and ceased. First, deep shadows, and then a bright star, appeared over the Abbey-tower.
Behind it, along the river, are the charming gardens designed by Le Nôtre, where Bishops walked and meditated, looking upon their not too faithful city of Castres. Upon this very ground was the ancient Abbey and close of the Benedictines; and as if in memory of these monkish predecessors, Bishop and builder of the XVII century left in an angle of the Palace the old Abbey-tower.
How beautiful everything was! so very still! with the Abbey-tower always the most picturesque point in our Norton Bury views showing so near, that it almost seemed to rise up out of the fields and hedge-rows. "Well, David," and I turned to the long, lazy figure beside me, which had considerably flattened the hay, "are you satisfied?" "Ay."
The Avon, spanned by an old arched bridge, washes one side of the town; the massive abbey-tower rises above a fringe of foliage and orchards, while on the one hand the horizon is bounded by the steep Cotswolds, and on the other by the broken masses of the Malverns. Close to the town, on its western verge, flows the Severn, crossed by a fine modern iron bridge.
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