.

.
Yes, I am a member of the corporation--rather an inexperienced member, some of them say.

It is quite true; and I should have declined the honour as premature--having other things on my hands just now, too--if it had not been pressed upon me so very heartily.' 'There is one thing you have on your hands which I can never quite see the necessity for,' said Downe, with good-humoured freedom.

'What the deuce do you want to build that new mansion for, when you have already got such an excellent house as the one you live in ?' Barnet's face acquired a warmer shade of colour; but as the question had been idly asked by the solicitor while regarding the surrounding flocks and fields, he answered after a moment with no apparent embarrassment - 'Well, we wanted to get out of the town, you know: the house I am living in is rather old and inconvenient.' Mr.Downe declared that he had chosen a pretty site for the new building.

They would be able to see for miles and miles from the windows.