Hawkstone a Tale of and for England in 184, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The sun was streaming in through the lattice, when Bentley awoke to a full consciousness of what had passed in that frightful night. As he threw his eyes round the little low whitewashed room in which he lay, he could recognise nothing as familiar to him; but it was clean and decent. The pallet on which he was stretched was furnished with a white curtain; a deal table at the side contained a bottle and glass, and some linen, which seemed intended to be used in dressing his wound; and his clothes had been carefully folded and arranged on an old worsted-worked chair at the foot of the bed. There were also on the walls some coarse coloured prints representing saints, and one of the Blessed Virgin with the Infant Saviour in her arms; and a roughly-carved crucifix of bone was placed over the chimney; and lying on the bed, turned down so as to mark the place, was a volume, which Bentley took up, and found it to be a book of Roman Catholic devotion - "the Hours of the Blessed Virgin."

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