The Mansion

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Title: The Mansion
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Posting Date: July 23, 2008 [EBook #704] Release Date: October, 1996
Language: English
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The Mansion
By
Henry van Dyke
There was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money squandered,
but of wealth prudently applied. Standing on a corner of the Avenue no longer fashionable for residence, it looked upon
the swelling tide of business with an expression of complacency and half-disdain.
The house was not beautiful. There was nothing in its straight front of chocolate-colored stone, its heavy cornices, its
broad, staring windows of plate glass, its carved and bronze-bedecked mahogany doors at the top of the wide stoop, to
charm the eye or fascinate the imagination. But it was eminently respectable, and in its way imposing. It seemed to say
that the glittering shops of the jewelers, the milliners, the confectioners, the florists, the picture-dealers, the furriers, the
makers of rare and costly antiquities, retail traders in luxuries of life, were beneath the notice of a house that had its
foundations in ...