There was a sword that one of my forbears wore at Edgehill and other battles in Charles the First's time.

We fought on the wrong side, of course, but the sword fetched thirty-five shillings nevertheless.

You will hardly believe that I was offered one hundred and fifty pounds for a gold cup worth about twenty-five, merely because Queen Elizabeth once drank from it.

This is my study.

It was designed for a banqueting hall." They entered a room as long as the wall of the house, pierced on one side by four tall windows, between which square pillars, with Corinthian capitals supporting the cornice, were half sunk in the wall.