Carl and Leo had been given a dressing-room in the mansion, and here they prepared for their acts.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
He was travelling a road, too, which he had so often journeyed in high spirits, fancying to himself the pleasant welcome before him, and even rehearsing to his own mind the stores of agreeability he was to display,-and now it was to a deserted mansion, lonely and desolate, he was turning!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The smoke-house was not over fifty yards from the mansion, and was reached along a walk of huge flat stones.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey