The Monastery Introductory Epistle Part 3
from The Walter Scott Library Hosted by Sir Walter Scott
In which a Benedictine monk seeks the retrieval of a revered heart from an ancient and desolate abbey, and the narrator, acting with cautious curiosity, aids in this solemn nocturnal excavation amid the ruins. The monk entrusts the narrator with precious memoirs connected to the past, beseeching his help to prepare them for publication and thus preserve a venerable history with due reverence and temperance.
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