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So the handful of people that came to church were glad enough to get the other side of the screen in the chancel, where at least the pew floors were boarded over, and the panelling of oak-work kept off the draughts. Now this Sunday morning there were only three or four, I think, beside Mr.
But it was no such thing: these gaol-like precautions were confined to the windows to which I had access. For a few minutes I felt quite distracted; but I bethought me that I must now, if ever, control my terrors and exert whatever faculties I possessed. I stood upon a chair and examined the oak-work. I thought I detected marks of new chiselling here and there.
Their grim savage fronts, overhanging the soft bright landscape of the valley, suggest the idea of a beautiful picture framed in rough oak-work. A stream, like a silver serpent, bisects the valley not running in a straight course, but in luxuriant windings, as though it loved to tarry in the midst of that bright scene.
We have seldom seen a more exquisite, a more elegantly artistic window than this. Edward Swainson, Esq., whose works are in the district, presented it. Still looking eastward, but taking a nearer view and one of less altitude, we notice the pulpit a piece of fine carved oak-work, resting upon a circular column of stone, and given by Mrs.
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