This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. Description of the cell occupied by the author--Carthusian breakfast pottage--A comparison--Shylock's determination emulated--Restrictions imposed on visitors--Dom Gamier described--Affecting incident in the early life of one of the monks--The Carthusian houses extant in Europe--The lady ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. Description of the cell occupied by the author--Carthusian breakfast pottage--A comparison--Shylock's determination emulated--Restrictions imposed on visitors--Dom Gamier described--Affecting incident in the early life of one of the monks--The Carthusian houses extant in Europe--The lady visitors' quarters--Bruno's interdict against womankind--Shrewd question raised hereupon by a filk-de-chambre in the present day--Rumour of George Sand--Some account of the travellers' Album formerly kept in the monastery--Meals supplied to strangers: how paid for--Reflections on the absurdity and inconsistencies of this Order of Monachism. As I was not at all aware of the kind of entertainment that might be afforded at the monastery, --for, "Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time," must not be regarded as a specimen of monastic diet and larders in the nineteenth century, --my hostess at St. Laurent du Pont had, in a very small compass, provided me with all that was needful for a non-conforming visitor's supper; and my compagnon de voyage spirit lamp, doing its best with fire and water, rendered me altogether independent of the boiler in the unseen, unapproachable Carthusian kitchen. Accordingly, I did not form one of the party of six travellers who ate an evening repast in the "Salle de Bourgogne;" but, with somewhat of the recluse, just for the nonce, supped alone in my cell. This was a homely room about fifteen feet long, ten wide, and fourteen in height; the outer wall being thirty inches in thickness; the floor of red brick; the walls of stone, rough plaistered; the ceiling of pine wood, neither lathed nor plaistered, nor whitewashed: the joists and plankings being visible. There was no fireplace. The casement window, four feet high and a yard...
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