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S the country in general; it is a small sort of village, almost entirely
of wood houses, painted white, with Venetian blinds, green outside, with
two white wooden churches. There are some American elms of a weeping
kind, and sycamores, i.e. planes; but the wood is mostly pine--white
pine and yellow pine--somewhat scrubby, occupying the tops of the low
banks, and marshy hay-land between, very brown now. A little brook runs
through to the Concord River.'[3] The brook flowed across the few acres
that were Emerson's first modest homestead. 'The whole external
appearance of the place,' says one who visited him, 'suggests
old-fashioned comfort and hospitality. Within the house the flavour of
antiquity is still more noticeable. Old pictures look down from the
walls; quaint blue-and-white china holds the simple dinner; old
furniture brings to mind the generations of the past. At the right as
you enter is Mr. Emerson's library, a large square room, plainly
furnished, but made pleasant by pictures and sunshine. The homely
shelves that line the walls are well filled with books. There is a lack
of showy covers or rich bindings, and each volume seems to have soberly
grown old in constant service. Mr. Emerson's study is a quiet room
upstairs.' [Footnote 3: Clough's _Life and Letters_, i. 185.] Fate did
not spare him the strokes of the common lot. His first wife died after
three short years of wedded happiness. He lost a little son, who was the
light of his eyes. But others were born to him, and in all the relations
and circumstances of domestic life he was one of the best and most
beloved of men. He long carried in his mind the picture of Carlyle's
life at Craigenputtock as the ideal for the sage, but his own choice was
far wiser and happier, 'not wholly i
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