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crowded the end of the room, and two of the younger
ones busied themselves hospitably by filling our teacups
after every draught. O’Connor assured them they
had nothing to fear from our troops so long as they
In the wood near North Camp.
attended to their religious duties ; he explained to
them exactly what we needed and were ready to pay
for in the matter of provisions, and to each succeeding
sentence the listening crowd of monks bent forward
