United States or Angola ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Meanwhile you must enter, as queens should through the great gates. Behold, there is a cure yonder, a great friend of mine. You will step along the roadway; you will ring a door-bell; the cure will appear; you will ask him if it be true that the manoir of P is to rent, you have heard that he has the keys; he will present you the keys; you will open the big gate and find me." "But but, Mr.
For the first time she felt outside her husband's world and in the way. Presently, in spite of the Baroness's protests, she took little Paul Saratoff to the beach. When her husband came in at the hotel just in time for dinner and expressed surprise that she had not returned to the manoir for him, she said coldly, "Oh, I didn't care to I didn't want to interrupt." "Anna expected you back to tea."
Flying, stumbling, pained, groaning, out of breath, fearing the lone hedges of the road, in wild struggle throwing his vain lust of appearances for once to the winds, and having behind and above him as he fled, the sky filled with vast pursuing shapes, with shrieks and curses, and before all the pursuers the CORPSE, he reaches at last the Manoir, and stops before it crying out.
So much for Gaston Cheverny's flinging his away. He showed a steady and cheerful fortitude under his losses. Besides the actual loss to him, whose fortune was already small, he was deeply attached to his home and his belongings. He told me with a rueful smile that only the fine gateway of the Manoir Cheverny had been spared.
Such a view betrayed the bourgeois in her, she suspected, but according to the Hawaiian all women were bourgeois at heart. After a time her feet turned into one of the lanes, and she followed unconsciously the well-known path until the gray wall of the ruined manoir came in sight.
She explained that the little hotel became unendurable later with the canaille des artistes, and so she had rented an old manoir in the neighborhood, which was being put to rights for her. The next afternoon the three walked to see the manoir through a maze of little lanes. It was a lovely old gray building with crumbling walls and had evidently once been the seat of a considerable family.
The Ferme de Turpe is situated near the town of Neuchatel-en-Bray, famous for its cheese. It has fewer interesting details than the Manoir d'Ango and is in even poorer repair, but in massing and general picturesque effect it offers many suggestions which can be utilized to advantage in our country houses. Of these four views very little need be said.
This was the very pleasant country residence built by M. Magne, Minister of Finance under the Second Empire, upon the site of the castle of Montaigne, which the author of the 'Essays, with a better sense of certain distinctions than that which is observed nowadays, preferred to speak of as his manoir.
"By the way," he broke in; "by the way, I'm not doing my duty as cicerone. There's a church near here we're coming to it in a moment famous eleventh or twelfth century, Romanesque style yes that's right, although I'm somewhat shaky when it comes to architecture and an old manoir, museum now, with lots of old furniture in it in the manoir, I mean." "There's the church now. Oh, let us stop!"
We didn't, for though the day was beautiful, there was a slight haze which made the far-off landscapes only a blue line. After breakfast we went for a walk in the park. They have arranged it very well, with rustic bridges and seats wherever the view was particularly fine. We saw a nice, old, red brick house, near the farm, which was the manoir where the Dowager Countess lives now.
Word Of The Day