square
brick
mansion
which yet
stands at
the corner
of Park
Street and
Beacon,though
sunk now
to a
variety of
business
uses,and
lamentably
changed in
aspect.
The
interior
was
noble,and
there was
an air of
scholarly
quiet and
of
lettered
elegance
in the
library,where
the host
received
his
guests,which
seemed to
pervade
the whole
house,and
which made
its appeal
to the
imagination
of one of
them most
potently.It
seemed to
me that to
be master
of such
circumstance
