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Traversing the long and allery, I descended the slippery

steps of oak; then I gained the hall: I halted there a minute; I

looked at sorim man in a cuirass, and one a lady with powdered hair and a pearl

necklace), at a bronze lareat

clock whose case was of oak curiously carved, and ebon black with

ti to

randeur The hall-door,

which was half of glass, stood open; I stepped over the threshold

It was a fine auturoves and still green fields; advancing on to the lawn, I

looked up and surveyed the front of the h, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a

gentleman's manor-house, not a nobleave it a picturesque look Its grey front stood out well

fro tenants were now on

the wing: they flew over the lawn and grounds to alight in a great

meadow, from which these were separated by a sunk fence, and where

an array of , knotty, and broad as

oaks, at once explained the etynation

Farther off were hills: not so lofty as those round Lowood, nor so

craggy, nor so like barriers of separation froh, and see to embrace