They left a feeling not of discomfort but of shelter.
Moreover, the grass underfoot was soft and still green.

Some sort of comeliness, picturesque though rude, showed in the scant attempts to modify nature in the arrangement of the grounds.

And there, noble and strong, upon a little eminence swelling at the bottom of the valley's cup, lay the great house, rude, unfinished, yet dignified.

If it seemed just this side of elegance, yet the look of it savored of comfort.

To a woman distracted and wearied it should have offered some sort of rest.