The stone encouraged a greenish lichen, the brick a powdery gray, so that though the building was rigidly rectangular there was no harshness in the physiognomy which it turned to the three avenues cut east, west and south in the hundred yards' breadth of old plantation encircling the immediate grounds. 
The building was softened with green and grey lichen, so that there was no harshness in the face which it turned to the three avenues that cut through the grounds. 