Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































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It was past three o'clock when I arrived at the gate of the park, and
Was admitted by an old - Page 223
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It Was Past Three O'clock When I Arrived At The Gate Of The Park, And Was Admitted By An Old Woman, Who Was Washing In A Dilapidated Building Which Had Once Been A Porter's Lodge.

I advanced up the remains of a noble avenue, many of the trees of which had been cut down and sold for timber.

The grounds were in scarcely better keeping than during my uncle's lifetime. The grass was overgrown with weeds, and the trees wanted pruning and clearing of dead branches. Cattle were grazing about the lawns, and ducks and geese swimming in the fishponds.

The road to the house bore very few traces of carriage wheels, as my cousin received few visitors but such as came on foot or on horseback, and never used a carriage himself. Once, indeed, as I was told, he had had the old family carriage drawn out from among the dust and cobwebs of the coachhouse and furbished up, and had drove, with his mother, to the village church to take formal possession of the family pew; but there was such hooting and laughing after them as they passed through the village, and such giggling and bantering about the church door, that the pageant had never made a reappearance.

As I approached the house, a legion of whelps sallied out barking at me, accompanied by the low howling, rather than barking, of two old worn-out bloodhounds, which I recognized for the ancient life-guards of my uncle. The house had still a neglected, random appearance, though much altered for the better since my last visit.

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