This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...by the side of the rushing stream. A well-known English lady and authoress has purchased a portion of this garden ground with the idea eventually, it is said, of building upon it and returning in her old age to rest in Holy Land. May her desire be realised! And now the evening shadows warn them to return to their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...by the side of the rushing stream. A well-known English lady and authoress has purchased a portion of this garden ground with the idea eventually, it is said, of building upon it and returning in her old age to rest in Holy Land. May her desire be realised! And now the evening shadows warn them to return to their convent home, for the inhabitants of Urtas have not a good reputation after nightfall. Eiding quickly, they arrived in time to walk a little about the streets of Bethlehem and visit some of the workshops, where the shells and Crosses of mother-of-pearl are manufactured in such quantities for the pilgrims, and sold in the outer court of St. Helena's Basilica, as well as in Jerusalem. And then they wished good-bye to the little town with its irregular streets and quaint houses and bright and genial population; and afterwards, a still more sorrowful farewell to the sacred shrine While this was passing through the press, the melancholy tidings reached the writer of her having found her rest indeed! but not at Urtas. and its kind and hospitable Franciscan guardians. The good old Superior, whose labours were so soon to end on earth, good-naturedly gave to one of the party the Bethlehem 'Pilgrim's Cross, ' the same in material and design as those given to such of the visitors to Jerusalem as had their feet washed by the patriarch on Holy Thursday; and with this remembrance and a last mass at the altar of the manger, sunny little Bethlehem was exchanged for the rough road leading to the gloomy and fanatical city of Hebron. HEBRON. CHAPTER VII. HEBRON. The foliowiDg morning our travellers had made their arrangements tp start at daybreak for Hebron. But there was a difficulty first about horses, and then about saddles, so that it was six o'clock before they f...
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