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"They understand me not, poor languageless savages!" said Mallet de Graville, turning to the monk, who stood by with the lifted rood; "speak to them in their own jargon."
I tried to get a glimpse of Johnny Montgomery's face, but too many people were standing up, and moving chairs, and when the flutter subsided a little I was able to catch the witness' voice going on. "Then I brought them some drinks, and Mr. Rood told me to go to bed. They were left alone down there when I had gone up-stairs. I went to sleep.
Eleven o'clock, A.M., Samuel Adolphus Poole, Esq., is in his parlour, the house one of those new dwellings which yearly spring up north of the Regent's Park, dwellings that, attesting the eccentricity of the national character, task the fancy of the architect and the gravity of the beholder each tenement so tortured into contrast with the other, that, on one little rood of ground, all ages seemed blended, and all races encamped.
He has a very good living, it is true, much better than he ought to have, according to the "political" opinions of those tracts! but Lenny is obliged to confess that if Parson Dale were a penny the poorer, he would do a pennyworth's less good; and comparing one parish with another, such as Rood Hall and Hazeldean, he is dimly aware that there is no greater CIVILIZER than a parson tolerably well off.
Under foot and over head, a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream; forms beautiful and terrible mixed together; dragons and serpents, and ravening beasts of prey, and graceful birds that in the midst of them drink from running fountains and feed from vases of crystal; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized together, and the mystery of its redemption; for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful pictures lead always at last to the cross, lifted and carved in every place and upon every stone; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt round it, sometimes with doves beneath its arms, and sweet herbage growing forth from its feet; but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in bright blazonry against the shadow of the apse.
They amuse themselves chiefly by running along the streets in long rows, arm-in-arm, singing 'Hossen hossen-hossen! They also treat each other to 'Nieuw rood met suiker' black currants preserved in gin with sugar until they are all quite tipsy, and woe to any quiet pedestrian who has the misfortune to pass their way, for with loud 'Hi-has' they encircle him and make him 'hos' with them.
The first news he heard after his return to town was of Lesbia's engagement, which was common talk at the clubs. The visitors at Rood Hall had come back to London full of the event, and were proud of giving a detailed account of the affair to outsiders.
Ay, one whose lot was far bitterer than yours." "Verily, I would give something to see one whose lot were so," answered the girl, bitterly enough. "I have no mother, and as good as no father; and none would care were I out of the world this night. Not a soul loveth me, nor ever did." "She used to say One did love us," said Agnes in a low voice; "even He that died on the rood.
Lovel said sternly; and then, with a sudden passion and inconsistency that startled his daughter, he went on: "Yes, I have sold Arden every acre. Not a rood of the land that has belonged to my race from generation to generation since Edward IV. was king, is left to me.
The pulpit is approached by the old rood staircase. The Communion plate dates from the 15th cent. . Newton, North, a parish 4-1/2 m. S. of Bridgwater and 2 m. N. of Durston Station. It is now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, whilst a copy of it may be seen in Taunton Museum. Newton, St Loe, a well-kept village 3-1/2 m. W. of Bath, standing on high ground on the outskirts of Newton Park.
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