Jolly Corner

…after that visit to the house in construction he walked with his companion to see the other and always so much the better one which in the eastward direction formed one of the corners the jolly one precisely of the street now so generally dishonoured and disfigured in its westward reaches and of the comparatively conservative avenue…

…and which alienated then for so long a period had through the successive deaths of his two brothers and the termination of old arrangements come wholly into his hands he was the owner of another not quite so good the jolly corner having been from far back superlatively extended and consecrated…

…or expressing it less sordidly he had yielded to the humour of seeing again his house on the jolly corner as he usually and quite fondly described it the one in which he had first seen the light in which various members of his family had lived and died in which the holidays of his over-schooled boyhood had been passed and the few social flowers of his chille…