Along this street, also, the more nicely kept and neatly painted dwellings were chiefly congregated.

It was the correct thing for a Rockland dignitary to have a house in Elm Street.

A New England "mansion-house" is naturally square, with dormer windows projecting from the roof, which has a balustrade with turned posts round it.

It shows a good breadth of front-yard before its door, as its owner shows a respectable expanse of a clean shirt-front.

It has a lateral margin beyond its stables and offices, as its master wears his white wrist bands showing beyond his coat-cuffs.
It may not have what can properly be called grounds, but it must have elbow-room, at any rate.