Excerpt from The White House at St. Real: A Story for School-Boys
"How happy the people must be who live here!" was the common exclamation of the stranger, as he passed before this pleasant dwelling-place, so well concealed amongst the trees as to be only clearly perceptible at a turning of the road, between two branches of eglantine, which separated themselves to be quickly reunited, and which thus formed a sort of jagged archway above the bushy hedge. The passer-by stopped involuntarily, for a moment, to look at the pretty picture in its elegant framework of verdure. The house was simply built, and its walls were almost entirely hidden by clematis and climbing roses. Old linden and chestnut trees overshadowed it on every side. A narrow terrace, gay with flowers, which bloomed there in great profusion, was all that lay between the house and a large orchard.
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