Excerpt from Zaidee, Vol. 1 of 3: A Romance
"Some call it the Uplands, sir, and some call it the Grange, - to us hereabouts it is nought but the Squire's house; that's the name"
Such would be the answer of the Cheshire peasant of whom you asked the designation of this old-established family dwelling-place: it is both the Uplands and the Grange in reality, but the Squire's house, its simplest and most common distinction, is sufficiently satisfactory. The scenery about is Cheshire scenery - nothing grand or elevated certainly, but, after its bare, bleak, windy fashion, wild enough to please a moderate taste for desolation.
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