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A palace on Commonwealth Avenue or on Beacon Street; a country-place at Framingham or Lenox; a seaside residence at Nahant, Beverly Farms, Newport, or Bar Harbor; a pew at Trinity or King's Chapel; a tomb at Mount Auburn or Forest Hills; with the prospect of a memorial stained window after his lamented demise, is not this a pretty programme to offer a candidate for human existence?
But to my narrative! You must know that there are but two of us, sons of a country squire, of old family, which once possessed large possessions and something of historical renown. We lived in an old country-place; my father was a convivial dog, a fox-hunter, a drunkard, yet in his way a fine gentleman, and a very disreputable member of society.
"Oh, I'm well enough, mother. This is a splendid old place, isn't it?" Mrs. Kent laughed at Jasper. "Yes, it is a fine country-place." Jasper left the two, and went down stairs. "Say, mother, how about the will?" asked Thorne. "Is it all right?" "A third of the estate is left to me." "Only a third! Does Jasper get the rest?" "Yes." "That's a shame. You ought to have had half."
"We saw them last winter we were down at their country-place in shire. They have a magnificent place there everything you can think of to make life pleasant. We spent a week with them. My dear Fleda! I wish I could shew you that place! you never saw anything like it." Fleda eat her pie. "We have nothing like it in this country of course cannot have.
He quickly reduced us from our vain supposition that carriages in a country-place should be cheaper than in a city; because, as he proved, there were fewer strangers to hire them and they ought logically to be dearer.
They had found the soil of the best quality, the buildings in perfect repair, the cattle looked sound and healthy; in short, this idea of becoming the mistress of rural property seemed to Brigitte the final consecration of opulence. "Minard," she remarked, "has only a town-house and invested capital, whereas we shall have all that and a country-place besides; one can't be really rich without it."
Adelle, overhearing this, felt an almost vivid sense of pride. But as yet hers was only a very little air, which was quickly wilted by the oppressive luxury of the Glynns' country-place one of those large, ostentatious establishments that Americans are wont to start before they know how, and where consequently the elaborate domestic machinery creaks.
There was no clew to follow. Even the name "Larmone" gave me no help; for I could not find it on any map of Long Island. It was probably the fanciful title of some old country-place, familiar only to the people who had lived there. But the very remoteness of the problem, its lack of contact with the practical world, fascinated me.
Often, when we took a walk on the Green, Sunday evenings, she would point to the hills beyond which her father's home once was, and I came to think of that country-place as one where there was plenty to eat and coals to keep warm. How to get there I tried to plan. I must walk, of course, but how was I to live on the road?
During the first days of the month of February in the year 1561, on a soft, warm evening such as we may sometimes find at that season on Lake Leman, two horsemen arrived at the Pre-l'Eveque, thus called because it was the former country-place of the Bishop of Geneva, driven from Switzerland about thirty years earlier.
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