Happy-Thought Hall

CHAPTER I.

THE IDEA--ADVICE--TITLE--PLAN--ON PAPER--SUGGESTION--COST--BOODELS-- OLD FRIENDS--JENKYNS SOAMES--DESIGNS--STAIRCASES--BAYS--OBJECTIONS-- ORDER OF ARCHITECTURE--STABLES--PRICE--GIVEN UP--CAZELL'S IDEA.

_Happy Thought._--To get a country house for the winter. To fill it with friends. To have one wing for bachelors. Another wing for maidens with _chaperons_. To h...