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Inspired Talks - Swami Vivekananda

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INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE 9<br />

tower with windows on three sides, three stories deep<br />

at the back, and only two in the front. The lower<br />

room was occupied by one of the students The one<br />

over it opened out of the main part of the house by<br />

several doors, and being large and convenient, be-<br />

came our class-room, where for hours each day the<br />

Swarm gave us familiar instruction Over this room<br />

was the one devoted exclusively to the use of the<br />

<strong>Swami</strong> In order that it might be perfectly secluded,<br />

Miss D had supplied it with a separate outside stair-<br />

case, although there was also a door opening upon<br />

the second story of the piazza<br />

This upstairs piazza played an important part in our<br />

lives, as all the <strong>Swami</strong> s evening talks were given<br />

here It was wide and roomy, roofed in, and extend-<br />

ed along the south and west side of the cottage<br />

Miss D had the west side of it carefully screened<br />

off by a partition, so that none of the strangers who<br />

frequently visited the piazza to see the magnificent<br />

view it commanded, could intrude upon our privacy<br />

There close by his own door, sat our beloved Teacher<br />

every evening during our stay and communed with<br />

us who sat silent in the darkness, eagerly drinking in<br />

his inspired words The place was a veritable<br />

sanctuary At our feet, like a sea of green, waved<br />

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