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One afternoon, near the close of a radiant July, a little party of four persons was assembled in the quiet, sunny garden of the vicarage of Underwoods. The house lay behind them: one of those low, rambling houses of uncertain architecture, so frequent in Berkshire, whose warm, red brick-work, and confusion of gables, of extravagant chimneys, gave it an air of not too remote antiquity; associations withE lizabeth, perhaps, or the earlier Stuarts. Before them stretched an expanse of smooth, spotless lawn, suggesting, like the sacred turf of college gardens, centuries of careful cultivation: and beyond that, visible only in a thin line of silver, piercing the willows, ran the meandering trout-stream, which bounded so pleasantly this pleasant domain. The extreme heat of the day had subsided as the sun passed westward; and, for two of the party, any superfluity of sunshine was effectually prevented by the large mulberry tree whose extensive shadow they enjoyed. They sat, in a silence which had probably followed protracted colloquy, in absent consideration of two youths, in white flannels and straw hats, who amused themselves some fifty yards away by throwing sticks for a vociferous terrier. And just then a trim maid-servant appeared.
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