Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.
Los campos se extendían ante nosotros: primero, la explanada contigua a la casa; después, las praderas; el bosque, seco y pardo, dividido en dos por un sendero; la iglesia, el camino, las colinas... Todo ello bañado por la luz suave de un sol otoñal y limitado por un horizonte despejado y azul.