High Court 
ASCUTNEY FROM THE DRIVEWAY 
poplars, is conspicuous from every distant 
view-point as a silhouette against the sky— 
it is quite concealed from the road near-by 
and even from its own gateway. 
The stage route from Windsor to Plainfield 
passes the entrance, which is marked by two 
beautiful gates of wrought iron in delicate 
and graceful design. The 
stone gate-posts are ivy 
grown and surmounted by 
two stone lions brought, 
together with the gates, from 
a villa near Florence. 
1 he steepness of the as¬ 
cent, after one is within the 
enclosure of the grounds, is 
artfully minimized by a cir¬ 
cuitous driveway lined on 
each side with magnificent 
bushes of Japanese hydran¬ 
geas and on the outer side 
with a second line of young 
and feathery Lombardy pop¬ 
lars, which sway in the breeze 
with their bright leaves 
trembling at the lightest breath of air. 
At every step the view grows fairer, till 
finally one debouches upon the summit and 
rounds the final curve upon the broad drive¬ 
way now enclosed by a heavy hedge of cedar— 
the direct approach to the house. Passing 
through the entrance into a large square hall, 
A SEAT IN THE WALL 
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