Ralph Henry Barbour,
The Happy Man — Chapter 6
(1915)
“ Thus, the living-room fireplace is broad enough to shed its genial warmth into a dozen faces, and yet, with its old-fashioned crane and its big wrought-iron fire-dogs and its stingy little shelf above, it still preserves Colonial traditions. ”
Ralph Henry Barbour,
The Happy Man — Chapter 6
(1915)
“ For back of the main road are more than a dozen pleasant summer residences, some genuinely old, some, recently built, looking more ancient than the genuine. There are no very large estates in Alderbury. An acre or two satisfies the most ambitious taste; for with sixty acres of rolling field and forest at the back door in which you have a proprietary right, what is the use of a large holding? In Alderbury when folks want to stretch their legs they cross the road or pass through a rear gate and there is the golf-course at their service.The clubhouse is small, clap-boarded and green-shuttered. ”
Ralph Henry Barbour,
The Happy Man — Chapter 6
(1915)
“ Around the fireplace on a rainy morning a few days later a half-dozen men were seated. As it was but ten o'clock, the feminine element was still lacking. There is an unwritten law to the effect that until ten-thirty or eleven the clubhouse shall be sacred to the men, a number of whom dwell there up under the eaves. There was a good deal of tobacco smoke in the air, and the hearth and floor were littered with yesterday evening's papers. (At Alderbury one didn't read the morning paper until nearly noon; and one didn't care!) ”
