Many were the recollections which awoke when Mathieu, accompanied by Denis, entered that princely mansion of the Avenue d'Antin!

Here is a side-board, gentlemen, which,if it can be equalled,cannot be excelledno, gentlemen, not if you were to search all the baronial halls, and lordly mansions in this land of mansions, and baronials.

Amongst others, there was one who lived in a decayed family mansion about six miles east of the pretty town of Dartmouth.

If we find the owner of a neatly kept garden and an elegant mansion slovenly, rude and vulgar in appearance and manners, we inevitably experience that shock of surprize which is excited by every thing that is incongruous or out of keeping.