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Updated: May 9, 2025
Immediately behind the house it was level, and laid out with a lawn and flower-beds. Beyond this a hill rose to a considerable height, the hillside being cut into slopes and terrace-walks, with an artificial canal fed by an ever-flowing stream at the bottom of it.
A pleasure-boat for floating between river banks it seemed, drawn by swans mayhap, and regarded in its course by fair eyes from green terrace-walks, or oriel windows of ancient houses on verdant lawns. Ten men sat on the thwarts, and one in the stern by the yet useless rudder, while men and boys drew the showy thing by a rope downward to the lock-gates.
Rydal Mount, of which he had at one time feared to be deprived, was his to the end. He still paced the terrace-walks but now the flat terrace oftener than the sloping one whence the eye travels to lake and mountain across a tossing gulf of green.
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