The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-04-11
Mistrllanruns.
From Dickens Household Words."
THREE WV ES.

i have Deslues my tOWn resiuchcc III wv
street-which is confined to suite Of two
apartments on the second noor-a very pleas
ant country-house belonging to friend of
mine in Deyonshire; this latter is my fav-
orite seat, and the abode which prefer to
call my home. like it well when its encir-
cling glens are loud with rocks, and their
great nest are being set up high in the rock
ing branches; like it when the butterflies,
those courtly ushers of the summer, are
doing their noiselcss mission in its southern
garden, or on the shaven lawn before its
front i like il when its balustraded roof
looks down upon sea Of golden corn and
islands of green orchards flushed with fruit
but most it pleases me when logs are roar
ing in its mighty chimneys, and Christmas
time is come. Six xabreast the witches might
ride up them, let their broomsticks prance
and curvct as they would. Ifyou enter the
hall by tho great doors while Chetwood and
myself were at our game of billiards at its
further end, you could recognize our feat
ures. The galleries are studies Of pcrspcc-
tive, and the bare, shining staircases rs
broad as carriage ways. The library, set
round from the thick carpet to the sculp-
tured ceiling with ancient books, with braz-
en- clasps and old-world types, and worm
drilled bindings. The chapel with its blaz-
oned saints on the dim windows, and the
mighty corridors with floors Of oak and sides
of tapestry, are pictures Of the past, and
teach whole chapters Of the book Of history :
Red Rose and White Rose, Cavalier and
Round-head, Papist and Protestant, Orange
man and Jacobite have each had their day
in old Tremadyn House. When the great
doors slam together, as they sometimes will,
to the inexprcssiblc terror of the London
butler, they awake series Of thunderclaps
which roll from the basement to the garret; /;
many warning have they given, in the
good old times, to Trcmadyns hiding for
their lives, and many an arras has been
raised and mirror slipped to right or left at
that menacing sound. To this day, Robert
Chetwood often comes anew upon some hold
! in which those who ruled before him have
skulkcd-sometimes in his own reception
rooms, but moro commonly in the great
chambers where he puu his guests. These
chambers are colossal, with huge carved pill
lars bearing up u armament of needlework,
and drcssing-closets large enough for din
nins-rooms. Every person Of note who
could or could not by possibility, or date, or
circumstance, have slept therein, have had
the credit of passing night within Trcma-
dyn House, from the Wandering Jew, Shaks-
pearc, Queen Elizabeth, down to Charles
the First Peter the Great, and the late En-
peror Nicholas. There has bsen more than
one murder in the Bedroom, several suicides
in the Blue, and one ghost still haunts thoss
spots in expiation. Tromadyns in lace cuff
and wigs in scarlet and ermine in armol
from top to toe, line both galleries-sold by
the last Charles Surface of dissolute race
for ten pounds ten shillings head. Ont
great Tremadyn dynasty has passed away
Robert Chetwood, late banker in the city o.
i. London not 80 long ago bankers clerk, nov
T reigueth in their stead. The Tcmadyni
came in at the time Of the seigc Of lJericho
or thereabouts, and the Chctwoods abou
!, ten years before the siege of SebastopolS. bu
there the advantage ceases. There is nj
: man kinder to the poor, no man more cour
teaps TO all men no man whatever his quar-
/ terings, in all Deyonshire, with bette
heart than Robert Chetwood. TrcmadyI
House is open to the country, as it ever wa
) and his own London friends are not forgot
I ten hale and hearty gentleman, indeed
, hc is. but he has had many troubles; hc
/, as happy as any man bercayed ..of childrc
can bo, and it was the loss Of them tina
: made him buy the house and give up his ol
: haunts and busy ways-
! He saw The nursery windows wide open TO ih
$ Bai the face. Of,he children they were Olouss
II. ihsc.