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MY COUNTRY
BY
MARIE
QUEEN OF RUMANIA
ALL PROFITS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK WILL BE PAID TO THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY FOR WORK IN RUMANIA
Published for The Times
BY
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON——NEW YORK——TORONTO
MCMXVI
ILLUSTRATIONS
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| "The thatched roofs are replaced by roofs of shingle that shine like silver in the sun" | 6 |
| "Very different are the mountain villages from those of the plain. The cottages are less miserable" | 6 |
| "Many a hearty welcome has been given me in these little villages" | 7 |
| "Square, high buildings with an open gallery round the top" | 7 |
| "It is especially in the Dobrudja that these different nationalities jostle together" | 10 |
| "It had kept the delightful appearance of having been modelled by a potter's thumb" | 14 |
| "Primitive strongholds, half tower, half peasant-house" | 14 |
| "Richer and more varied are the peasants' costumes" | 14 |
| "With an open gallery round the top formed by stout short columns" | 15 |
| "Composed of a double colonnade.... Behind these colonnades are the nuns' small cells: tiny domes, little chambers" | 15 |
| "A convent ... white and lonely, hidden away in wooded regions greener and sweeter than any other in the land" | 18 |
| "This porch is decorated all over with frescoes" | 22 |
| "Some were so old, so bent, that they could no more raise their heads to look up at the sky above" | 23 |
| "Strange old monks inhabited it" | 23 |
| "Silent recluses, buried away from the world" | 23 |
| "An indescribable harmony makes its lines beautiful" | 26 |
| "A lonely little cemetery, filled with crosses of wood" | 30 |
| "On lonely mountain-sides" | 30 |
| "Guarded by a few hoary old monks" | 30 |
| "There lies a tiny wee church" | 30 |
| "Tall and upright, with the pale, ascetic face of a saint" | 30 |
| "Creatures so old and decrepit that they seem to have gathered moss like stones lying for ever in the same place" | 30 |
| "When found in such numbers they are mostly hewn out of wood" | 31 |
| "These strange old crosses ... they stand by the wayside" |