Then above, in the three gables, were three other smaller apertures.

But these also were mullioned, and the entire frontage of the house was uniform in its style.
Round the house there were trim gardens, not very large, but worthy of much note in that they were so trim,--gardens with broad gravel paths, with one walk running in front of the house so broad as to be fitly called a terrace.

But this, though in front of the house, was sufficiently removed from it to allow of a coach-road running inside it to the front door.

The Dales of Allington had always been gardeners, and their garden was perhaps more noted in the county than any other of their properties.

But outside the gardens no pretensions had been made to the grandeur of a domain.