It never, of course, entered into the heads of the builders that need could ever arise for receiving any save male guests.

And for such, as I have said, a handsome suite of large rooms, both sitting-rooms and bedrooms, with huge fireplaces for the burning of colossal logs, is provided.
Ordinary brethren of the order would not be lodged there.

The magnificence is reserved for a Cardinal (Gregory XVI.

who had been a Camaldolese frequently came here), or a travelling Bishop and his suite, or a heretic English or American milord! But not for any daughter of Eve! And the makeshift room over a carpenter's shop, which is called the _forestieria_, has been devoted to the purpose only in consequence of the incomprehensible mania of female English heretics for visiting the disciples of St.Romuald.And there the food supplied from the convent can be brought to them.

But for the night?
I had warned my friends that they would have to occupy different quarters; and it now became necessary to introduce George Eliot to the place she was to pass the night in.
At the distance of about twenty minutes' walk above the convent, across a lovely but very steep extent of beautifully green turf, encircled by the surrounding forest, there is a cow-house, with an annexed lodging for the cowherd and his wife.