Word: churchyards
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George Bernard Shaw was 50 when he found an epitaph in the old churchyard of Ayot Saint Lawrence, 22 miles from London. It read: "1825-1895-Her time was short." Then & there Shaw, who intended to live to 100, decided that the quiet Hertfordshire hamlet where 70 was considered a short life would be an ideal place to spend the coming 50 years. Shaw found a house, moved in, learned to love Ayot...
...present at the death varied widely. Some years later a shoemaker's wife, who had been charged with the care of the royal prisoner, swore on her deathbed that young Louis had been spirited away and that another boy had been buried in his grave in the churchyard of Sainte Marguerite...
...silk-lined chest is eagerly opened by her seven grandchildren in succession-and is silently, fatally closed by an unknown hand, with the children inside. In Strangers and Pilgrims, one of the 76-year-old master's latest, a stranger dressed all in black visits an old churchyard and examines the inscriptions on the tombstones. The old man is looking for the grave that was denied him when he committed suicide some 50 years before...
...London's Belgrave Square in the prosperous '20s, Gladys Aylward enjoyed her life as a downstairs maid. But one Sunday after church, a preacher shaking hands with her said, surprisingly: "Well, Miss Aylward, God is wanting you." Gladys pulled her hand away and ran down the churchyard path perplexed and a little angered. But back in her servants' quarters, she found that the preacher's words had taken root. She had lost her taste for parties and dancing, and life seemed suddenly meaningless and empty. When she finally spoke to a neighboring minister's wife...
...over the rough roads, the country folk pressed into the stalls along the Rua Feliciano Mendes for coffee. Because a big-time operator from Belo Horizonte had rented every room in town and sublet them to prostitutes at $10 a day, the pilgrims slept in the streets, in the churchyard or in trucks...