Mrs. Hugh Fraser
The Honour of the House
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books Jan. 17, 2018)
Excerpt from The Honour of the House
To the West sloped the rose gardens in broad flat terraces, separated by diverging avenues walled in with box hedges, so thick and high as to dwarf a little the square-cut ilexes that mingled their foliage of green and silver in an almost impenetrable roof overhead. Between avenue and avenue, reached only by rare openings cut in the box walls, the gar den architect had laid out bowers of enchanting se crecy, deep, green courts where grass and wild flow ers ran riot; here too were wildernesses of roses and syringas; fountains also to linger near in the hot noonday, with marble benches warmed by the west ering sun for cooler hours, and a vast maze or laby rinth of such ingenious intricacy that the children of the house had been formerly forbidden to enter it, lest they should never find their way out again. This prohibition, indeed, was no longer necessary, for the time of the young Bordelacquas was so strictly meted out that no moment of the day was left free for juvenile escapades.
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To the West sloped the rose gardens in broad flat terraces, separated by diverging avenues walled in with box hedges, so thick and high as to dwarf a little the square-cut ilexes that mingled their foliage of green and silver in an almost impenetrable roof overhead. Between avenue and avenue, reached only by rare openings cut in the box walls, the gar den architect had laid out bowers of enchanting se crecy, deep, green courts where grass and wild flow ers ran riot; here too were wildernesses of roses and syringas; fountains also to linger near in the hot noonday, with marble benches warmed by the west ering sun for cooler hours, and a vast maze or laby rinth of such ingenious intricacy that the children of the house had been formerly forbidden to enter it, lest they should never find their way out again. This prohibition, indeed, was no longer necessary, for the time of the young Bordelacquas was so strictly meted out that no moment of the day was left free for juvenile escapades.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- ISBN
- 0483229652 / 9780483229655
- Pages
- 426
- Weight
- 25.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.9 in.
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