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Nicholas rose precipitately, and advanced toward the door to ascertain the cause of this unaccustomed noise. "It is the Big Cripple!" cried Nicholas, returning. "The Big Cripple?" said the provost; "and Germain, has he descended from the talking-room?" "Not yet," said Barbillon. "Let him hurry, then," said Skeleton, "that I may give him an order for a new coffin."
In the auditorium, or talking-room of the monastery, the abbot, surrounded by his white-cowled monks, delivered his spiritual discourses. A strange company it was: the old, stooping monk and the young beginner, the lord and the peasant, listening together to the man whose message they believed came from another world. III. St. Bernard and the Second Crusade
This rude scene was surrounded by wonderful tapestries hung from the walls: woman's record of man's deeds. Later, we read of stairs and of another room known as the Parloir or talking-room, and here begins the sub-division of homes, which in democratic America has arrived at a point where more than 200 rooms are often sheltered under one private roof!
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