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Updated: May 26, 2025
Beyond the dip, again, a square-towered church kept within grey walls the record of the village flock, births, deaths, and marriages even the births of bastards, even the deaths of suicides and seemed to stretch a hand invisible above the heads of common folk to grasp the forgers of the manor-house.
There were the farmhouses, the square-towered churches, the red-pointed hop oasts, and the village children. How distinctly she had made him see them! His Betty his splendid Betty! His heart beat at the thought of seeing her high, young black head, and holding her safe in his arms again. Safe!
Vane laughed good-humoredly; but as they clattered through a sleepy hamlet with its little, square-towered church overhanging a brawling river, his face grew grave. Pulling up the horse, he handed the reins to Carroll. "This is the first stage of my pilgrimage. I won't keep you five minutes." He swung himself down, and the groom motioned to him. "West of the tower, Mr.
As we steamed on, past a little town protected by a great square-towered, fortified castle, high on a precipitous rock, I guessed by the formation of the bay, which Mr. Barrymore had shown me on a map, that we were in the famous Bocche di Cattaro. "Yes," I told myself, "that must be Castelnuovo. Mr. Barrymore said the bay was like the Lake of Lucerne, with its starfish arms.
We passed through various little villages, each one with a pretty little gray, square-towered church. There was plenty of passing, as it was market day. We met a good many peasant women carrying milk in those curious old brass bowls one sees everywhere here. Some of them are very handsome, polished until they shine like mirrors, with a delicate pattern lightly traced running around the bowl.
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