Abbey was there during the flu epidemic, and he said the people were dying in the fort or camp where he was, and that they would take them and put them in a warehouse where they were stacked up like cord wood because it was freezing cold.
Abbey's nephew, of course, was a friend of mine, and Robert said that they thought Ollie and Dollie were two of the most beautiful girls they had ever seen but that, of course, they could not understand a word they said because of their heavy southern accent.
About the grounds were monks in white and monks in brown, mowing the thick turf of the grass plots, smoothing the gravel walks, trimming the deep-green arbor vitae hedge along the east side of the enclosure, and removing dead limbs from the pine trees.
Thus was established the Abbey of Mount Melleray; the mother house of the abbey in Iowa.
The Trappist abbey in Ireland prospered, and grew in numbers so rapidly that in 1835, even before the new abbey was completed, it was necessary to send a few brethren to England to found another monastery.
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