CHAPTER VI 



Taken from an architectural point of 



view there was nothing to be said for 



French's Court. It belonged to the race 



of stone boxes, with tightly-fitting lids, that 



were built in Ireland a hundred years ago, 



the greater box or the less, according to the 



circumstances of the builder, and it was of 



as Presbyterian a gauntness as its tribe. 



Contrary, however, to the rule which 



ordained that the stone box should, as far 



as possible, face north and east, French's 



Court, with its ranks of high windows, 



looked out into the sunset across a great 



plain of western ocean. From the edge of 



the loDg bare terrace in front of the house, 



the grass-lands sloped suavely between 



plantations to the sea, where Atlantic rollers 

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