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Spanish in character, the architecture of the Big House was not of the California-Spanish type which had been introduced by way of Mexico a hundred years before, and which had been modified by modern architects to the California-Spanish architecture of the day Hispano-MoresqueHouse in all its hybridness, although there were experts who heatedly quarreled with the term
Spaciousness without austerity and beauty without ostentation were the funda and horizontal, broken only by lines that were vertical and by the lines of juts and recesses that were always right-angled, were as chaste as those of a ular roof-line, however, relieved the hint ofsquat, the square upthrusts of towers and of towers over-topping towers gave just proportion of height without being sky-aspiring The sense of the Big House was solidarity It defied earthquakes It was planted for a thousand years The honest concrete was overlaid by a creaain, this very saht have proved monotonous to the eye had it not been saved by the many flat roofs of warlance while theall of the Big House, centered for a quick solicitous instant on the great wing across the two-hundred-foot court, where, under cli sun, the drawn shades of the sleeping-porch tokened that his lady still slept
About him, for three quadrants of the circle of the world, arose low- rolling hills, sher hills and steeper wooded slopes that hty mountains The fourth quadrant was unbounded byeasily to vast far flatlands, which, despite the clear brittle air of frost, were too vast and far to scan across
The htened her into the road and forced her to one side Down upon hiravel, flowed a river of white shiora goats, each with a pedigree, each with a history There had to be a near two hundred of theorous selection he cothe sides of the least of them, as fine as any human new-born baby's hair and finer, as white as any huer than the twelve-inch staple, and that the mohair of the best of them would dye any color into twenty-inch switches for women's heads and sell at prices unreasonable and profound