This fact the horseman did not fail to notice, and with a ready eye to the main chance, which showed its possessor to be a man of no ordinary apprehension, he glanced approvingly at the groined porch, the richly carved pinnacles above it, and at the quaint belfry beyond, exclaiming with great enthusiasm: "'Fore God, you have a goodly dwelling and a rich here.

We see him turn both art and nature to his service, and we cannot contemplate the lordly dwelling and the richly decorated land around itand the neatness and security and order of the whole scenewithout associating them with the high accomplishments and refined tastes that in all probability distinguish the proprietor and his family.

He had expected to be ushered into some princely dwelling, for he had judged his interlocutor to be some rich and eccentric noble, unless he were an erratic scamp.

Surely man upon their faces Climbeth upward nearer Thee Dwelling in Light's Obscurity!