Stone Court

Stone Court,Farm and residence of Peter Featherstone. "The house was already visible, looking as if it had been arrested in its growth toward a stone mansion by an unexpected budding of farm buildings on its left flank, which had hindered it from becoming anything more than the substantial dwelling of a gentleman farmer. It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on the right." After leading Fred Vincy to expect this property, old Featherstone leaves it to his illegitimate son, Rigg Featherstone. When the latter parts with it to Mr. Bulstrode, Fred Vincy and Mary Garth move into it and Fred gradually becomes owner of the stock and furniture.

<em>Middlemarch</em>

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