. London . ST. SAVIOURS DOCK avarice! The old man one day, devising a way to save afew meals—for at a time when death is in the house who canthink upon eating and drinking ?—pretended that he wasdead, and laid himself out with a white sheet over him. Alas !He was cruelly mistaken. His servants, learning what had 58 LOXDON happened, loudly and openly rejoiced, stripped the larder ofall that it contained, set the casks flowing, opened the bottles,and began to feast and sing. It was more than the old mancould endure. He sprang from his bed and rushed amongthem—they fled shrieking because they tho
. London . ST. SAVIOURS DOCK avarice! The old man one day, devising a way to save afew meals—for at a time when death is in the house who canthink upon eating and drinking ?—pretended that he wasdead, and laid himself out with a white sheet over him. Alas !He was cruelly mistaken. His servants, learning what had 58 LOXDON happened, loudly and openly rejoiced, stripped the larder ofall that it contained, set the casks flowing, opened the bottles,and began to feast and sing. It was more than the old mancould endure. He sprang from his bed and rushed amongthem—they fled shrieking because they thought it was hisghost; one, bolder than the rest, stood his ground to face theghost, and banged the apparition over the head with the butt-. NORTII-EAST VIEW OF ST. SAVIOUR S end of a broken oar, so that the unlucky ghost fell downdead in real earnest. What happened when they came tobury him may be read in the book above referred to. The misers fortune thereupon devolved upon his immediately sent for her lover, who hastened to obeyhis mistress. Alas! on his way the unlucky knight wasthrown from his horse and was killed. The girl, distracted SAXON AND NORMA N 59 by this misfortune, founded a convent of sisters at the south<end of the ferry, and, taking refuge in her own Foundation,retired from the world. Here in course of time she on, another pious lady changed the convent of sistersto* a college of priests, and very early in the twelfth centurytwo Norman knights, named Pont de lArche and DAnsey,founded here a great priory of which the present Church Saviour was then the Chapel. The Effigy of Pont de1Arche (or perhaps it is that of his friend DAnsey) is still to , with no inscription
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