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Under all and after all the Wheel carries everything. -_Proverb._
One had known the place for years as a picturesque old house, standing / in a peaceful park; had watched the growth of certain young oaks along a / new-laid avenue, and applauded the owner's enterprise in turning a / stretch of pasture to plough. There are scores of such estates in / England which the motorist, through passing so often, comes to look upon / almost as his own. In a single day the brackened turf between the oaks / and the iron road-fence blossomed into tents, and the drives were all / cut up with hoofs and wheels. A little later, one's car sweeping home of / warm September nights was stopped by sentries, who asked her name and / business; for the owner of that retired house and discreetly wooded park / had gone elsewhere in haste, and his estate was taken over by the / military.