21. An avenue of limes, dead straight and exactly half a statute mile in length, ran from the gates to the big house at Maran Hill. 22. Morag stayed at the small, white house at different times of the year and she could never make up her mind which particular time she liked the best. 23. Ironically, too, the towering figure of Bernard, abbot of the Cistercian house at Clairvaux, radically changed the role of the Cistercians. 24. The truck turned right by the big houses at the south edge of the Common and started along the straight stretch, where we were standing. 25. The men in berets at the house at Hackballs Cross, the possibility he might once have been a gunman in his wild and woolly youth. 26. He occupied a house at the Sign of the Keg, a little further down the street opposite the convent church of the Order of Saint Cecily. 27. They were homosexuals, although their little house at Cosham was very respectable, with separate bedrooms visible to anybody who cared to look. 28. The houses at Pompeii vary greatly in size and elaboration, from two or three rooms to large buildings with many rooms arranged round courtyards. 29. Among other outstanding houses at Pompeii are the House of Menander, the House of Pansa and the House of the Vettii. 30. As a kid I used to wonder how burglars could creep round your house at night without waking you. |