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"Then, do you know what, dear old father?" "Well?" "Our old woman is half blind, and does everything wrong. Do let me go down to dame Doris at the gate-house, and ask her to help me. She is so clever and kind, and no one irons so well as she does." "Silence!" cried the steward, angrily, interrupting his daughter. "Those people shall never again cross my threshold."
Leger, near Daventry, in Northamptonshire, is the gate-house of the ancient manor of the Catesbys, of whom Robert Catesby was the contriver of the Gunpowder Plot.
The gate-house is swept away, there is a new steward and there-but, tell me how came you here?" "My father left us nothing and Christians took its in. There were eight of us." "And my sister shelters you all?" "No, no; one has been taken into one house and others into others. We shall never be together again."
She could only stroke little Helios' curls, saying: "Tomorrow you shall have a ride in the air, and perhaps Selene will tell you a pretty story by-and-bye." Her heart beat faster than usual as she stepped into the litter, which was waiting for her just in front of the gate-house.
Doris had not done speaking when Antinous came into the gate-house and delivered the commands of the architect Claudius Venator, to escort him through the city. Pollux hesitated with his answer, for he had still much to do in the palace, and he hoped to see Arsinoe again in the course of the day. After such a morning what could noon and evening be to him without her?
He began to regret his hardness upon the old woman for had she not, without knowing who he was, been most friendly to him and to his favorite. "Where is Antinous?" he asked Mastor. "He went out to the gate-house." "What is he doing there?" "I believe he meant there, perhaps he " "The truth, fellow!" "He is with Pollux the sculptor." "Has he been there long?" "I do not exactly know."
It must be remembered that King Street formerly ran right up to the Abbey precincts, from which it was separated by a gate-house, called Highgate, built by Richard II.; but the street was subsequently shorn of a third of its length, over which now grows green grass in smooth lawns.
Place House, once a grange of Shaftesbury Abbey, at the end of the village, is an early Tudor manor. The fine gate-house and the tithe-barn at the side of the entrance court are good specimens of the domestic architecture of the period. The buildings form a picturesque group and the all too brief glimpse of them from the railway has probably caused many travellers thereon to break their journey.
But he was to be brought rudely down to facts again. He was beginning to forget that England was about him and stirring in her agony; and he was reminded of it with some force in the winter after his profession. He was going out to the gate-house one day on an errand from the junior-master when he became aware of an unusual stir in the court.
The fine gate-house of Easby Abbey, which is in a good state of preservation, stands a little to the east of the parish church, and the granary is even now in use.
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