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ing-house, as hare, hard, untouched 
by sun and cloud and song and fra- 
grance as the rigid lines of the 
building. Everything was out of 
key with Nature ; the largeness, 
the rushing life, the vast fertility, 
the immeasurable beauty, included 
everything except the stern, ugly 
little structure, that seemed not 
only to defy the elements, but to 
scorn the loveliness and to set the 
teeming forces of Nature at de- 
fiance. 
In winter the bov looked at the 
