Capitolo 19
tolerably beautiful, but I conversed less with her that his/her husband, in
of who favor I was prejudiced to be known that he had exposed great
the courage and patriotism to the duration of the consignment of Burgoynes."
It was at the most of the French Revolution that the three children of the
Of Orleans owed was entertained to the mansion of Langdon. Years later,
when Luigi Philippe was on the throne of France, he asked of a
The lady of Portsmouth introduced to his/her court if the mansion of brave of us
Gouverneur Langdon was still in existence.
The house steps backwards a decent distance from the road, under
the shades of of the gigantic oaks or elms, and you introduce an imposing
I wait as you draw near on the tessellated you marble walk. A
one hundred or two feet on both side of the gate, and making head on
the road, is a small building squared of brick, a history in
height--probably the cottage of the laborer and utensil-house of first days. There
it is a tied up great garden of fruit to the house that is in excellent
conditions, while comfortably complaining the life, and having the pleased air of a
well preserved companion of the regime of ancien. The mansion of Langdon was
possessed and greed occupied by the late Turn. The Dr. Burroughs, for one period of
forty-seven years the esteemed rector or the Church of St. John.
To the other Pleasant street goal another notable house is to that
we will come from and from. Although President Washington found Portsmouth
but modestly attractive from an architectural point of view, the
visitor of to-day, if he has an antiquarian taste, it will be found
embarrassed by the number of place and buildings that his likes you/they
interest. Many of these buildings were new and undoubtedly the common place
enough to the date of the visit of Washington; time and the association have
you date them a picturesque quality and a meaning what time they do them
architecture a question of the secondary importance.
It is probable that a footsteps a two weeks in Portsmouth that explores the nooks and
on angles that history has thrown a charm, and from any means exhausts