Calvert of Strathore - Tapa blanda

Across the courtyard covered with snow fallen during the might which glittered and sparkled in the brilliant wintry sunshine grooms and stable-boys hurried between ecuries and remises currying Mr. Jefferson's horses and sponging off Mr. Jefferson's handsome carriage with which he had provided himself on setting up his establishment as minister of the infant federation of States to the court of the sixteenth Louis.