In An Old English House It Will Occupy A Servant
The Best Part Of The Day To Carry Water Up And Down For A Large
Family.
Everything also is spacious, commodious, and well lighted.
I certainly think that in house-building the Americans have gone
beyond us, for even our new houses are not commodious as are
theirs.
One practice which they have in their cities would hardly
suit our limited London spaces. When the body of the house is
built, they throw out the dining-room behind. It stands alone, as
it were, with no other chamber above it, and removed from the rest
of the house. It is consequently behind the double drawing-rooms
which form the ground floor, and is approached from them and also
from the back of the hall. The second entrance to the dining-room
is thus near the top of the kitchen stairs, which no doubt is its
proper position. The whole of the upper part of the house is thus
kept for the private uses of the family. To me this plan of
building recommended itself as being very commodious.
I found the spirit for the war quite as hot at Boston now (in
November) if not hotter than it was when I was there ten weeks
earlier; and I found also, to my grief, that the feeling against
England was as strong. I can easily understand how difficult it
must have been, and still must be, to Englishmen at home to
understand this, and see how it has come to pass.
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