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Richard Orchardson and Priscilla walked on side by side beneath the trees, a straggling colonnade of ash, planted many a long year before; and emerging thence, came out upon an open space of green, in the centre of which was a large tarn or pond, surrounded on every side by water-willows, with silver tresses dangling and dipping upon the water's brim. Fronting the tarn was the house, a quaint Elizabethan structure of red brick, with a terrace, where once upon a time (if traditions were true) Queen Bess herself had walked and mused, one night when she had rested, a stately guest, beneath that roof. It was a quaint and lonely habitation, only partly tenable, for the Orchardsons were ever a small family, and used few of its many rooms.
Approaching the terrace, they ascended to it by a broad flight of crumbling steps, and came upon a semi circular space, in the centre of which was a sun-dial surrounded by flowers, and not far from the dial a rustic seat.