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"The house was spacious and shabby and it had that air of pitiful lonliness peculiar to neglected houses built almost a century ago. It was elevated above its neighbors, set catercorner on a plot hedged in by high, untrimmed privet. Its three stories were topped by two chimneys and an assortment of cupolas. Around it great oaks, elms and maples stood protectively, helping to preserve the dignity of the Victorian era when houses were built in which children could romp or curl up on window seats on a rainy afternoon. There was a wide porch around the bay front, and a story above, a widow's walk from which one could scan the shore of Long Island, five miles across the Sound, and pick out Execution Light, that infamous tory prison of Revolutionary days, standing harsh and solitary on its island of rock." ~from "With Love From Karen" |
