Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.
Appoggiata al parapetto, mi misi ad esaminare il terreno circostante, il prato verde intorno alla casa, i campi, il bosco triste e folto, tagliato da un viale coperto di musco, la chiesa, le porte, la via, le tranquille colline, tutto quel tratto di paese, che pareva riposasse sotto il sole autunnale.