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He stood below in the mean street, looking up at her. So fine she was in her stature and her bearing, she reminded him of Juno dethroned. As she stood in the doorway, she winced from the street, from her surroundings. "And you will go with Mrs. Hodgkisson to Hucknall?" He was talking quite meaninglessly, only watching her. Her grey eyes at last met his.
He rests in the vault that now contains the dust of the greatest of his race, Hucknall Torkard Church, where his epitaph records the fact that the family lost all their present fortunes by their loyalty, adding, "yet it pleased God so to bless the humble endeavours of the said Richard, Lord Byron, that he repurchased part of their ancient inheritance, which he left to his posterity, with a laudable memory for his great piety and charity."
Who ever had a sounder taste, a more exact intellect than Dante? or who has ever tuned his harp more in favour of Freedom, than our own Whittier? Kirkstall Abbey Mary the Maid of the Inn Newstead Abbey: Residence of Lord Byron Parish Church of Hucknall Burial Place of Lord Byron Bristol: "Cook's Folly" Chepstow Castle and Abbey Tintern Abbey Redcliffe Church. January 29.
The chime was from the village spire of Hucknall Torkard, beneath which his remains lie buried! I have since visited his tomb. It is in an old gray country church, venerable with the lapse of centuries. He lies buried beneath the pavement, at one end of the principal aisle.
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