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Updated: May 22, 2025
Well, it was fortune, and he must accept it; he was all the more eager now to make a second call at Arcadia House. It was a dull, thawy afternoon when Constans found himself standing again before the closed door that bore the name of the inhospitable Mr. Richard van Duyne.
Constans by dint of rubbing away some of the verdigris succeeded in making out the inscription. It read: ARCADIA HOUSE RICHARD VAN DUYNE 1803 Actuated by a daring impulse he lifted the knocker and let it fall. The rat-tat sounded hollowly, but there was no response.
So, let us fancy, quoth Mynheer van Duyne away back in anno Domini 1803, and when he died in 1850 or thereabouts, the estate, having but a moderate value as city property goes, was allowed to remain in statu quo; the heirs had ground-rents enough and to spare without it, and Arcadia House might be considered a proper memorial of the ancient state and dignity of the Van Duynes.
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