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Sheldon's small domain was called The Lawn, and consisted of something over half an acre of flower-garden and shrubbery, a two-stall stable and coach-house, a conservatory and fernery, and a moderate-sized house in the gothic or mediaeval style, with mullioned windows in the dining-room and oriels in the best bedroom, and with a great deal of unnecessary stone-work and wooden excrescence in every direction.
"Perhaps you don't know that Colonel Potogònkin lodges in my house a colonel, sir, and has lived here these seven years; and Anna Petròvna Buchmìsteroff a lady of fortune, sir, who rents a coach-house, and a two-stall stable, sir, and keeps three out-door servants: these are the sort of lodgers I have.
He led the way across a yard and down a passage to the stables, opened one of the doors, and, waiting outside himself, told me to look in. I found myself in a two-stall stable. In one of the stalls a horse was munching his corn; in the other an old man was lying asleep on the litter. I stooped and looked at him attentively. It was a withered, woe-begone face.
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