What he added he added in stone, but the old house was brick.

He was much abused at the time for his want of taste, and heard a good deal about putting new cloth as patches on old rents; but, as the shrubs and ivy have grown up, a certain picturesqueness has come upon the place, which is greatly due to the difference of material.

The place is somewhat sombre, as there is no garden close to the house.

There is a lawn, at the back, with gravel walks round it; but it is only a small lawn; and then divided from the lawn by a ha-ha fence, is the park.

The place, too, has that sad look which always comes to a house from the want of a tenant.
Poor Lady Ushant, when she was there, could do little or nothing.
A gardener was kept, but there should have been three or four gardeners.