Edward Burton

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192

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286 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. By six o'clock, on the evening of the same day, a lively group, engaged in animated conversation, were seated on the piazza of the handsome cottage of Edmund Bonbright. This imposing summer residence occupied one of those elevated, picturesque sites, which are so characteristic of the outlying portions of Bar Harbor, and commanded a prospect, at once rich, comprehensive, and varied. The cottage was of an irregular, rambling style of architecture, and its numerous gables, porches, and towers combined to give it a unique and romantic effect, even for this resort, where handsome summer residences are so numerous. A broad piazza extended around three sides of the house, but it was so broken by angles, screens, and vines, that it appeared more like a series of irregular vestibules and recesses. The gently sloping lawn was covered with a velvety green turf, relieved here and there by bright masses of color, which were made up of coleus, geraniums, and other bright flowers; while around the whole, there was a low, massive, cemented wall, covered with vining nasturtiums of plain and variegated colors. A concreted driveway turned in from the street, and describing a graceful curve through the lawn, passed under a spacious porte-coch

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