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Excerpt from Autobiography a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives, Vol. 7: With Brief Introductions, and Compendious Sequels Carrying on the Narrative to the Death of Each Writer
In this venerable mansion there was one chamber whose dismal and singular constructure left no doubt of its having been a part of the original monastery. It was supported by the mouldering arches of the Cloisters dark, gothic, and Opening on the minster sanctuary, not only by casement windows that shed a dim mid-day gloom, but by a narrow winding stair case, at the foot of which an iron spiked door led to the long gloomy path of cloistered solitude. This place remained in the situation in Which I describe it ln the year 1776, and probably may, in a more ruined state, continue so to this hour.
In this awe inspiring habitation, which I shall henceforth denominate the Minster-house, during a tempestuous night, on the twenty-seventh of Novem ber 1758, I first Opened my eyes to this world of duplicity and sorrow. I have often heard my mother say that a more stormy hour she never remembered. The wind whistled round the dark pinnacles of the Minster tower, and the rain beat in torrents against the casements of her chamber. Through life the tempest has followed my footsteps; and I have in vain looked for a short interval of repose from the perseverance of sorrow.
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