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long domestic architecture can hardly be expected to 
flourish in our midst, or at least its chances will be very 
limited. 
Men come out to these parts some with fair, some 
with fine, business prospects before them, — some 
others come to fill local Government appointments, 
whilst others again come out to seek their fortune as 
best they can, but all, with the exception of the 
Portuguese, come here with the fixed notion of re- 
turning some fine day for good and all to the 
home of their nativity, or of settling down in some 
English country place, or some Scotch mountain slope, 
or Welsh valley ; nor have they the slightest intention 
of allowing " Repentir" to be blessed with the quiet 
possession of their honoured bones. They all look 
homeward as good christians should look heaven- 
ward, and the consequence of it all is — that men 
scarcely care to build much where they do not care 
to remain long ; and " a fortiori" they care not to 
cultivate the arts, much less encourage architecture 
for the mere benefit of posterity, which, according to the 
play, has done nothing at all for them ! All that 
pater-familias wants here is a house large enough 
to contain the one half of his family, while the other 
and older half are being schooled at home. It is enough 
for him to have a house well ventilated and so built as to 
catch the breeze, with no holes in the floor to endanger 
his children's feet, or leaks in the roof to damage his 
furniture. The freehold of the house he may secure, 
not so much with the view of passing it on to his child- 
ren, as to avoid vexatious rent-paying ; or he may buy 
his house as the best investment for his money. Why 
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