Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 4: From May, 1872, to October, 1872 Sauntering about the garden, enjoying the sunshine and the flowers, or wandering through the deserted rooms of the old man sion, vainly trying to re-people them as of old, when their walls rang with merriment or glowed with generous hospitality, When cul ture and comfort, fame and fashion made the old house their abiding-place, we fall in with a party from Baltimore, pilgrims like ourselves to this historic spot. Fortunately, there are no ladies in either party to keep up the bars of formality. We meet, mingle, and by the time the circuit of the grounds is completed, the two parties are merged into one. At last the doubled party stands on the grassy mound in front of the house. The artist closes his sketch-book, and we begin to speak of returning. Our coachman brought us by a roundabout road through Georgetown. Why not' return by the Long Bridge? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.