IT was an old manor-house, not a deserted convent, as you might suppose by the name. The conventual buildings from which no doubt the place had taken its name, had dropped away, bit by bit, leaving nothing but one wall of the chapel, now closely veiled and mantled with ivy, behind the orchard, about a quarter of a mile from the house. The lands were Church lands, but the house was a lay house, of an older date than the family who had inhabited it from Henry VIII.’s time, when the priory was destroyed, and its possessions transferred to the manor.
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भाषा अंग्रेज़ी ● स्वरूप EPUB ● ISBN 9786050465341 ● फाइल का आकार 0.5 MB ● प्रकाशक Margaret Oliphant ● प्रकाशित 2016 ● डाउनलोड करने योग्य 24 महीने ● मुद्रा EUR ● आईडी 6873796 ● कॉपी सुरक्षा सामाजिक DRM
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