The part of the house reserved for the master lay behind this entrance way.

Back of it rambled the structure used by the farm steward, and the slaves and cattle.

The whole house was low--in fact practically one-storied; and the effect produced was perhaps substantial, but hardly imposing.
Up the broad avenue went the two young people; too busy with their own gay chatter to notice at a distance how figures were running in and out amid the colonnade, and how the pillars were festooned with flowers.

But as they drew nearer a throng was evident.

The whole farm establishment--men, women, and children--had assembled, garlanded and gayly dressed, to greet the young master.