Who lives there ?" She was pointing to the estate adjoining the Barnes house and fronting the sea further on.

"Estate" is a much abused term and is sometimes applied to rather insignificant holdings, but this one deserved the name.

Great stretches of lawns and shrubbery, ornamental windmill, greenhouses, stables, drives and a towered and turreted mansion dominating all.
"I seem to have aristocratic neighbors, anyhow," observed Mrs.Barnes.
"Whose tintype belongs in THAT gilt frame ?" Captain Obed chuckled at the question.
"Why, nobody's just now," he said.

"There was one up to last fall, though I shouldn't have called him a tintype.

More of a panorama, if you asked me--or him, either.