Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930 · London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. [etc.]; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 23
chants in big wigs . . . something certain and civicand domestic, is all about these quiet staid shapely houses,with no character but their exceeding shapeliness, and thecomely external utterance that they make of their internalcomfort. Now the others . . . are sly and grotesque,they combine their… … 16 a Quiet staid shapely Houses 5? 17 doors. I have quoted at large from this letter becauseit reveals the effect of buildings on a mind singularly alertand sensitive. There is something boyish and a littleover-strained in the vision of Chester as bedevilled andfurtive, but a substratum of truth in…
