Sir Gervase Grey - 1854 Author:Gordon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER TIT. " THE DOMESTIC KELIGIOSITIES OP THOSE MELANCHOLY SUNDAYS." turn away our eyes for a little while from the large cool quiet Indian room, to ano... more »ther and a far distant scene, but one not unconnected with our tale and its personages. It is from the beautiful old English dwelling which calls the father of our hero master, that our Asmo- dean privilege withdraws the roof, and enables us to scan some portion of the interior. It was the Sunday evening at Greystocke Hall ; a lovely autumnal evening, whose twilight shadows were softly stealing over the deep and long-withdrawing glades, and the noble groups of beeches, oaks, and chesnuts, ofits fine and extensive park, where the varied surface presented many a beautiful alternation of woodland and open lawn; and from many points afforded different views of the mansion all unlike each other, and all picturesque in a greater or less degree. It lay, as many old houses do, somewhat in a hollow; an irregular pile of building, having undergone various additions and modifications, at the hands of successive owners, the most modern of which was a square wing, if so it might be called, of the style of James the Second's reign, projecting at one side, and rather to the back of the mansion. The principal front was very old, and formed three sides of a court, having a broad gravelled carriage-way all round it, and in the middle, a small square of the finest turf, where stood a venerable sun-dial, elevated on three stone steps. From the front the eye glanced up the gently-ascending slope of the lawn, through which the carriage road went winding till it reached a pair of tall iron gates, under an archway in the park wall, which directly fronted the house. From this archway a steep and perfectly straight avenue, at least a mile in ...« less