It bounded a garden into which a knot-hole permitted me to pry.

The enclosure was a charming green, which I saw appended to a house of the loftiest and most stately order.

It seemed like a recent erection, had all the gloss of novelty, and exhibited, to my unpractised eyes, the magnificence of palaces.

My father's dwelling did not equal the height of one story, and might be easily comprised in one-fourth of those buildings which here were designed to accommodate the menials.

My heart dictated the comparison between my own condition and that of the proprietors of this domain.