Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 301
d the pair rode on until theyreached a lonely mansion, where the midwi e, still blindfolded,v/as conducted to an upper room. She performed her diitiesto a lady, whom tradition avers to have been masked, butscarcely had the new-born infant been thus strangely usheredinto the great world, when a man… … THE NORTH LAWN. Then themidwife, againblindfolded, wasmounted on thepillion, and,hurriedly ridingin the break-ingday with hersilent com-panion, was putwithin her owndoors ; but thestrangeness ofthe summonshad aroused hercuriosity, and,en reaching thehouse, she hadcounted thesteps and hadcut a…
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