The rooms throughout were low, and for the most part long and narrow, with large wide fireplaces and deep wainscotings.

Taking it altogether, one would be inclined to say, that it was picturesque rather than comfortable.

Such as it was its owner was very proud of it,--with a pride of which he never spoke to any one, which he endeavoured studiously to conceal, but which had made itself known to all who knew him well.

The houses of the gentry around him were superior to his in material comfort and general accommodation, but to none of them belonged that thoroughly established look of old county position which belonged to Carbury.

Bundlesham, where the Primeros lived, was the finest house in that part of the county, but it looked as if it had been built within the last twenty years.