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• She was learning to cultivate A heart at leisure from itself To soothe and sympathise She found that Vivian had already heard the news from Father Miles, and she timidly ventured to ask him what he intended to do After a few flights of rhetoric concerning the extreme folly of the Countess--to forsake an earldom for the cloister was a proceeding not in Vivian's line at all--that gentleman condescended so far to answer his wife as to observe that he was not fool enough not to know when he was well off. —  A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
• Between the triforium and the roof of this cloister is a vaulted chamber, called the Muniment Room, where some of the Abbey documents are still kept, and the ancient chests contain archives, which are gradually being sorted and rearranged. —  Westminster Abbey
• Within the cloister is a tablet commemorating the fact that it was partly built by Rev. E. C. Glyn and his wife in memory of his mother, who died in 1892. —  The Kensington District The Fascination of London
• The eastern side of the cloister was all that remained of the quadrangle, and was turned to account as a "comfortable eight-stall stable" for horses. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
• The cloister was originally continued parallel with this wall to the extremity of the nave, whence it extended in the usual quadrangular form, each side consisting of eight bays, enclosing the area known as the cloister-garth. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less

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