"We have not been here an hour yet, and Mr.Kennedy insisted on bringing me here." "It is wonderfully beautiful," said Phineas.
"It is this very spot where we now stand that made me build the house where it is," said Mr.Kennedy, "and I was only eighteen when I stood here and made up my mind.

That is just twenty-five years ago." "So he is forty-three," said Phineas to himself, thinking how glorious it was to be only twenty-five.

"And within twelve months," continued Mr.
Kennedy, "the foundations were being dug and the stone-cutters were at work." "What a good-natured man your father must have been," said Lady Laura.
"He had nothing else to do with his money but to pour it over my head, as it were.

I don't think he had any other enjoyment of it himself.

Will you go a little higher, Lady Laura?
We shall get a fine view over to Ben Linn just now." Lady Laura declared that she would go as much higher as he chose to take her, and Phineas was rather in doubt as to what it would become him to do.