The big house, standing on a high hill which overlooked the city, showed in the moonlight the grotesque outlines of a composite architecture. Originally it had been a square substantial edifice of Colonial simplicity. A later and less restrained taste had aimed at a castellated effect, and certain peaks and turrets had been added. Three of these turrets were excrescences stuck on, evidently, with an idea of adornment. The fourth tower, however, rounded out and enlarged a room on the third floor. This room was one of a suite, and the rooms were known as the Tower Rooms, and were held by those who had occupied them to be the most desirable in the barn-like building.
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Here's how this vintage fiction was described in 1918: "An old-fashioned love story that is nontheless modern."
The National Library for the Blind describes it this way: "The Ballard siblings, Mary, Constance, and Barry, live in an old house in Washington, D.C. With Constance getting married, their aunts, Isabelle and Frances, want Mary to close up the house. However, Mary feels responsible for Barry, so she has taken the bold step of renting the Tower Room to a gentleman."
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