HEADLONG HALL.
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Mr. Milestone.
Here is a rugged mountainous road, leading through impervious shades: the ass and the four goats characterise a wild uncultured scene. Here, as you perceive, it is totally changed into a beautiful gravel-road, gracefully curving through a belt of limes: and there is Lord Littlebrain driving four-in-hand.
Squire Headlong.
Egregious, by Jupiter!
Mr. Milestone.
Here is Littlebrain Castle, a Gothic, moss-grown structure, half-bosomed in trees. Near the casement of that turret is an owl peeping from the ivy.
Squire Headlong.
And devilish wise he looks.
Mr. Milestone.
Here is the new house, without a tree near