Lowick Manor

Lowick Manor,The residence of Mr. Casaubon and Dorothea. "It had a small park, with a fine old oak here and there, and an avenue of limes toward the south-west front, with a sunk fence between park and pleasure ground, so that from the drawingroom windows the glance swept uninterruptedly along a slope of greensward till the limes ended in a level of corn and pastures, which often seemed to melt into a lake under the setting sun . . . The building, of greenish stone, was in the old English style, not ugly, but small-windowed and melancholylooking ; the sort of house that must have children, many flowers, open windows, and little vistas of bright things, to make it seem a joyous home."

<em>Middlemarch</em>

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