I was sorrowed to hear of your loss.

The service stairs were next to the main stairs, separated only by a wall, but what a difference there was between them: the narrow back stairs, dangerously unrailed, under the bleak gleam of a skylight, each step worn down to a steep hollow, turned tightly in a deep grey shaft; whereas the great main sweep, a miracle of cantilevers, dividing and joining again, was hung with the portraits of prince-bishops, and had ears of corn in its wrought-iron banisters that trembled to the tread.

[…] they continue to mirror-image the Greeks in their obsession with antiquity and in downgrading the Slavness of contemporary Macedonians.

The Love Bush seems to have been used in olden days in medicine, for Browne in 1789 writes: It has been always esteemed as a diuretic and apertive, and formerly used as an ingredient in come of the compositions of the shops.