"But I can some, and the rest must wait.

I can send four--perhaps five--of the steers to the monthly market, and then there are the sheep--Oh, father, I did not tell; you about the gentleman I saw fishing in the dale--" She stopped, for she saw that he was not listening.

He had opened a local paper and was reading it intently, and presently he looked up with an eager flush on his face and a sudden lightening of the dull eyes.
"Have you seen this--this house--they call it a palace--which that man has built on the lake side ?" he asked, his thin voice quavering with resentment.
"Do you mean the big white house by Brae Wood ?" "Yes.

Judging by the description of it here, it must be a kind of gim-crack villa like those one sees in Italy, built by men resembling this--this _parvenu_." "It is a large place," said Ida; "but I don't think it is gim-crack, father.

It looks very solid though it is white and, yes, Continental.
It is something between a tremendous villa and a palace.