[Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookHarry Heathcote of Gangoil CHAPTER I 18/25
It was here, in fact, that they lived, having a parlor simply for their meals.
Behind the main edifice there stood, each apart, various buildings, forming an irregular quadrangle.
The kitchen came first, with a small adjacent chamber in which slept the Chinese man-cook, Sing Sing, as he had come to be called; then the cottage, consisting also of three rooms and a small veranda, in which lived Harry's superintendent, commonly known as Old Bates, a man who had been a squatter once himself, and having lost his all in bad times, now worked for a small salary.
In the cottage two of the rooms were devoted to hospitality when, as was not unusual, guests, known or unknown, came that way; and here Harry himself would sleep, if the entertainment of other ladies crowded the best apartments.
Then at the back of the quadrangle was the store, perhaps of all the buildings the most important.
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