Excerpt from Colonel Enderby's Wife, Vol. 2 of 2: A Novel In front of him lay the level green expanse of a tennis-lawn, with bright flower-beds on either hand, ending in a gentle slope of grass, and a space of half wild ground, such as our forefathers would have termed a pleasaunce, - planted with little thickets of hawthorn, yew, lilac, and laurel, and overtopped by several good oak trees, a couple of feathery larches, and a tall, dark cypress, a trifle lop-sided from the force of the westerly winds. On the left stood the house and on the right, across a sunk fence, was a good-sized meadow. A couple of old stag-headed Spanish Chestnuts, whose first withered leaves fluttered slowly to the ground, rose from low mounds above the levels of rich deep grass. The elms in the hedgerows, too, had been lightly touched by the golden fingers of autumn; a yellow bough, here and there, showing like a sudden leap of flame amid the otherwise dense and uniform foliage.

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