444 SUNDRY JOURNEYS AND EXPERIENCES IV 



Mr. Sanford s country-seat in Belgium. It was a most 

 beautiful place, a lordly chateau, superbly built, fitted, 

 and furnished, ample for the accommodation of a score 

 of guests, and yet the rent he paid for it was but six hun 

 dred dollars a year. It had been built by a prince at 

 such cost that he himself could not afford to live in it, 

 and was obliged to rent it for what he could get. Thence 

 we made our way to London and New York. 



