The wanderings of a pen and pencil . ostof three capacious stories ofapartments. A pleasant avenueof birch trees conducts you to theenclosure and to the the side of the dwelling, facing to the highway, the architect, with thatpertinacious adhesiveness to the defensive form which characterised theprevious century, has thrown up the main of the building into the appearanceof a double tower, square, and of ordinary brickwork: and this, with theoutline of the former portion, gives the picturesque appearance which itbears upon inspection from the road. We saw nothing of interest in thein
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . ostof three capacious stories ofapartments. A pleasant avenueof birch trees conducts you to theenclosure and to the the side of the dwelling, facing to the highway, the architect, with thatpertinacious adhesiveness to the defensive form which characterised theprevious century, has thrown up the main of the building into the appearanceof a double tower, square, and of ordinary brickwork: and this, with theoutline of the former portion, gives the picturesque appearance which itbears upon inspection from the road. We saw nothing of interest in theinterior of the chapel, forty-one feet in length and twenty in breadth, andornamented after the fashion of recent days. We made some inquiry as tolegends or histories connected with the place, but the farmer shook his head,caring little for our zeal, and, indeed, he seemed to be one of those whoconsider a ghost by no means the most respectable of ones ancestry oracquaintance. We suspended the question, for as we talked together in the. Long Birch. MOSELY HALL. 55 shelter of the religious apartment, a fine, juvenile, ruddy, buxom sample ofthe gentler kind skipped in from a closet entrance, and disenchanted us atonce from the world of spirits to the notice of the comelier reality, luxuriantin youth and strength and rustic vigour. This was the jointure house of thewidow of Thomas Giffard, who died in 1718. She herself died at the ageof ninety-five, and was buried in the parish church at Brewood. The bishops,or vicars apostolic of the midland district, rented the house afterwards of theChillington Squire, and resided here in succession with their chaplains. Now the wind blew cool indeed, and the red sun, hovering over the myste-rious gorgcousness of the glowing west, bade farewell to legendary towers,to the mound of forest trees over the glooming vast of Chillington, to dimbowers of Maythorn and the funeral wands of dark green poplar trees in thewillowy waste by the brook of the mill
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