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She was struck, however, beyond her expectation, by the grandeur of the abbey, as she saw it for the first tie court; and two sides of the quadrangle, rich in Gothic ornaments, stood forward for admiration

The remainder was shut off by knolls of old trees, or luxuriant plantations, and the steep woody hills rising behind, to give it shelter, were beautiful even in the leaflessto co, that without waiting for any better authority, she boldly burst forth in wonder and praise The general listened with assenting gratitude; and it seeer had waited unfixed till that hour

The kitchen-garden was to be next admired, and he led the way to it across a small portion of the park

The nuarden was such as Catherine could not listen to without dis more than double the extent of all Mr Allen's, as well her father's, including church-yard and orchard The walls seee of hot-houses see them, and a whole parish to be at ithin the enclosure The general was flattered by her looks of surprise, which told him almost as plainly, as he soon forced her to tell hiardens at all equal to them before; and he then modestly owned that, "without any ambition of that sort himself--without any solicitude about it--he did believe thedoarden

Though careless enough in ood fruit--or if he did not, his friends and children did There were great vexations, however, attending such a garden as his

The utmost care could not always secure the most valuable fruits

The pinery had yielded only one hundred in the last year Mr Allen, he supposed, must feel these inconveniences as well as hiarden, and never went into it"

With a triueneral wished he could do the sa vexed in so short of his plan

"Hoere Mr Allen's succession-houses worked?" describing the nature of his own as they entered them

"Mr Allen had only one small hot-house, which Mrs Allen had the use of for her plants in winter, and there was a fire in it now and then"