Author: Mary Eleanor Fitzgerald Kerrich

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780267595853

Excerpt from Homes and Haunts of Edward Fitzgerald Originally a farmhouse, Fitz Gerald restored and added to it without destroying its char acter. Its fine barn was left standing, and on its eaves pigeons purple-breasted car riers, egotistical fantails, and meek brown nuns - cooed out their interminable afiaz'res de caeur. Here in the shadow of green trees still slept its duck pond, provoking the remark, which amused F itzgerald so much, of his old man-servant, delivered after deliberation, Well, them ducks du seem fond of the water, to be sure. Fitzgerald's home bore the clear impress of his individual ity, of his love for Nature, of his clinging to associations for the sake of the past and for their own sake. Just as the barn was allowed to stand, kept in perfect order, so was left undisturbed the farm-kit chen, with its separate en trance, on a line with the porch of the front door, a kitchen wherein all things were kept by his little, active, elderly housekeeper, to a pitch of cleanliness and order that might be called painful. There lived cherished possession now, alas! Seldom to be found the little couple who, joint tenants of a china house, with a startlingly vermilion roof and spotless walls, so regulated their walks abroad that, with tender gallantry, the gentle man only braved the inclement weather, leaving to his lady, a matron of the sparest pro portions, the delights of a promenade on a fine day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.