Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand: Their Legends And Their Lives
The book Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand: Their Legends And Their Lives was written by author Berkeley, Grantley F. (Grantley Fitzhardinge), 1800-1881 Here you can read free online of Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand: Their Legends And Their Lives book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand: Their Legends And Their Lives a good or bad book?
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In the days of which I am speaking the bower was kept and clipped, and formed a part of the gardener's care ; and in it, aye, on that very spot where I stood to think of the olden time, Sir John Manners first spoke of that love which was eventually to bring the wide domain of her father to the house of Rutland — and there may it long continue. Early, then, and before the daylight closed, and while the red glare of a cloudless sun was still sinking beneath the purple-tinted hills and giving prom...ise of a nightly frost, the guests for the masked ball began to arrive; some at the main entrance into the court below, and others from the hills by the gateway beneath Peverill's Tower, to which a road led from the direction of the Chatsworth Chase and Hall. Seated on a curious old root from a very old tree, which even at this time protrudes itself from the park through the wall to Dorothy's Terrace, I traced that once 308 THE RECEPTION. well-beaten carriage-track from the gateway to the hill, and thence towards Chats worth, and thought of the jolly wood-carts bearing in the log and cord-wood for the fires, and the pony that had brought on its back the goodly stag and buck, and the steeds and retainers that had fol- lowed the ladies of the Vernon family, who, perhaps, carried a falcon on their hands for sport on the Longshaw Moors.
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