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It was a surprise to be conducted, not to the refectory, where all the nuns took their meal together, but to a small room opening into the cloister on one side, and with a window embowered in vines on the other, looking into the garden.
The gewgaws spread out before Jean were to her like the gloves, jewels, and braiding of hair with which Martha reproached her sister in the days of her vanity, and the cloister with its calm services might well seem to her like the better part.
The alternative seemed to her from Maudelin in her worldly days to Maudelin at the Saviour's feet, and had Mother Margaret Stafford been one whit more the ideal nun, perhaps every one would have been perplexed by a vehement request to seclude herself at once in the cloister of St.
In the cloister garden were three lofty cypresses, and a fine palm-tree.
On our right the path led directly to the cloister of Troaditissa, and on our left lay a valley extending to the foot of Olympus.
Hussein informed me that the cloister was about two leagues distant, whilst, if I were desirous of reaching the crest, we might do it in about three hours’ time.
Why not go direct to the cloister where we could refresh ourselves, and after a good night’s rest make the attempt in the morning?
As we approached they turned out to be bonfires, lit to celebrate the Easter fête, and that the supposed cloister was only a small village.
In the name of the pacha, he commanded the villagers to appear and conduct a noble stranger to the cloister of Troaditissa, under the penalty of having their houses pulled about their ears should they refuse to comply.
Like most cloister churches in Cyprus, it appeared to date from very ancient times, and was probably built when Christianity first reached the island.
This cloister can boast one most curious and valuable relic, namely, a picture of the Madonna worked in silver and gold, with the heads of mother and child painted on ivory.
In the distance, on our right hand, we saw the monastery of Kikku (the richest and most extensive cloister in the island, and the very stronghold of Cyprian brotherhoods), towering like a pyramid into the air.
Next morning when I left my hard and comfortless bed, I found that both cloister and mountain were enveloped in a thick white mist.
The cloister stands back towards the south upon the highest range, and commands a magnificent view.
On inquiry I found that three men had been making requisitions on the cloister at Troaditissa, and after other acts of violence had been lodged in the gaol at Nikosia.
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