ISBN: 1235617637

[EAN: 9781235617638], Neubuch, WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH,HISTORY, This item is printed on demand. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a f… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781235617638], Neubuch, WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH,HISTORY, This item is printed on demand. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: . . . horses were taken to the stable, and Gipsy being bidden by her mistress to return to her stall, obeyed the injunction of her own accord. After which, the whole party repaired to the house, Bab leading the way. Ill What Montfichet beheld from the Bay-window. Monkbury Place was a noble old mansion of the period of James the First, or a little earlier, and in excellent preservation. Looking to the west, the principal front presented a very imposing appearance, from the two lofty octangular towers that sprung on either side of the arched entrance. These towers had large bay-windows extending over the doorway on the first floor; and the parapets and stonework were richly ornamented. The wings were terminated by gables. Situated on a gentle elevation, the mansion was surrounded by an extensive park--groves haunted by rooks, and glades traversed by deer. How beautiful are these old English halls, and how picturesque! What an air of comfort and hospitality there is about them! In what perfect keeping they are with the climate, and the immemorial woods in which they lie embosomed. Some quarter of a mile from the house, but in full view of the windows and terraces, was a large sheet of water, constantly maintained at a certain height by the Chelmer, which flowed through the park. At a short distance on the left, amidst the trees, might be seen the square tower of the little, sequestered, grey old church, where the Squire used to meet his tenants on a Sunday, and sit in his large pew with his niece, to listen to the discourses of the Reverend Jeremy Bush, his chaplain. The comfortable naps in which the worthy gentleman used to indulge during these discourses had been checked by Bab, and he had become quite a pattern of decorous attention. Attached to Monkbury Place . . .<

ISBN: 9781235617638

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