caroub-tree

Updated: May 17, 2025

The brown train of the eleven brothers as we saw them pacing slowly beneath the great caroub-tree close to the abbey, or the row of boys blinking in the sunshine as they repeat their lesson to the lay-brother who acts as schoolmaster, jar less roughly on the associations of Lerins than the giggle of happy lovers or the pop of British champagne. There is little interest in the later story of St.

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy