The White Company: (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Classics Collection) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508604457)

All round the Abbey the monks were trooping in. Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound. From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St. Leonard's, they had all turned their steps homewards. It had been no sudden call. A swift messenger had the night before sped round to the outlying dependencies of the Abbey, and had left the summons for every monk to be back in the cloisters by the third hour after noontide. So urgent a message had not been issued within the memory of old lay-brother Athanasius, who had cleaned the Abbey knocker since the year after the Battle of Bannockburn.

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN-10: 1508604452
ISBN-13: 9781508604457
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2015
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.68d