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hinged sunshade that folded back on its
canned ivory handle. The house, remodelled and enlarged by Mr. Raycie on
his marriage, had played a part in the
Revolutionary war as the settler's cottage
where Benedict Arnold had had his
headquarters. A contemporary print
of it hung in Mr. Raycie's study; but no
one could have detected the humble outline of the old house in the majestic stone-coloured dwelling built of tongued-and-grooved boards, with an angle tower, tall
narrow windows, and a verandah on chamfered posts, that figured so confidently as
a "Tuscan Villa" in Downing's "Landscape Gardening in America." There
was the same difference between the rude
lithograph of the earlier house and the fine
steel engraving of its successor (with a
"specimen" weeping beech on the lawn)
as between the buildings themselves. Mr.
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