I think we found landscape, for ourselves-and wherever I at least found vision I found such sport as I was capable of-even between the front and back rooms and the conflicting windows; even by the stove which somehow scorched without warming, and yet round which Mr. Coe and Mr. Dolmidge, the drawing-master and the writing-master, arriving of a winter's day, used notedly, and in the case of Mr. Coe lamentedly, to draw out their delays.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James