text:  The shadows of the broad thick-foliaged oaks lay in gigantic masses on the smooth turf (of which the gardeners were a few relics of the former herds of deer in the shape of wide-antlered stags and dappled roes;) all the sights and sounds of summer beauty were united in that solitary greensward; and for the first time in my life I felt a regret pass over me that the grandeur of my family had decayed and a faint fluttering became perceptible to me round my heart of a wish to restore our fortunes