History of Madame Roland . ntirely unornamented, were covered with whiteplaster, which, in many places, the storms ofyears had cracked and peeled off. The housestood elevated from the ground, and the frontdoor was entered by ascending five massivestone steps, which were surmounted by a rustyiron balustrade. Barns, wine-presses, dove-cots,and sheep-pens were clustered about, so thatthe farm-house, with its out-buildings, almostpresented the aspect of a little village. A veg-etable garden; a-flower garden, with serpentinewalks and arbors embowered in odoriferous andflowering shrubs ; an orchard,
History of Madame Roland . ntirely unornamented, were covered with whiteplaster, which, in many places, the storms ofyears had cracked and peeled off. The housestood elevated from the ground, and the frontdoor was entered by ascending five massivestone steps, which were surmounted by a rustyiron balustrade. Barns, wine-presses, dove-cots,and sheep-pens were clustered about, so thatthe farm-house, with its out-buildings, almostpresented the aspect of a little village. A veg-etable garden; a-flower garden, with serpentinewalks and arbors embowered in odoriferous andflowering shrubs ; an orchard, casting the shadeof a great variety of fruit-trees over the closely-mown greensward, and a vineyard, with longlines of low-trimmed grape vines, gave a finishto this most rural and attractive picture. Inthe distance was seen the rugged range of themountains of Beaujolais, while still further inthe distance rose towering above them thesnow-capped summits of the Alps. Here, inthis social solitude, in this harmony of silence,. Marriage. 99 Years of happiness. Mode of life. in this wide expanse of nature, Madame Rolandpassed five of the happiest years of her,life-five such years as few mortals enjoy on , whose spirit had been so often exhilaratedby the view of the tree tops and the few squareyards of blue sky which were visible from thewindow of her city home, was enchanted withthe exuberance of the prospect of mountain andmeadow, water and sky, so lavishly spread outbefore her. The expanse, apparently so limit-less, open to her view, invited her fancy to arange equally boundless. Nature and imagina-tion were her friends, and in their realms shefound her home. Enjoying an ample income,engaged constantly in the most ennobling liter-ary pursuits, rejoicing in the society of her hus-band and her little Eudora, and superintendingher domestic concerns with an ease and skillwhich made that superintendence a pleasure,time flew upon its swiftest wings. Her mode of life duri
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