Hopewood

Today on the Hopewood case, involving the University of Texas, it's still not quite clear what the impact of that decision will be.

Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996

Who, at that hour, could be invading the winter solitude of Hopewood?

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

In the glow of Mrs. Westmore's Christmas visitation an athletic club had been formed, and leave obtained to use the Hopewood grounds for Saturday afternoon sports; and thither Amherst continued to conduct the boys after the mills closed at the week-end.

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

They drove him forth on long solitary walks beyond the town, walks ending most often in the deserted grounds of Hopewood, beautiful now in the ruined gold of

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

Here, beyond a region of orchards and farm-houses, several "leading citizens" had placed, above the river-bank, their prim wood-cut "residences," with porticoes and terraced lawns; and from the chief of these, Hopewood, brought into the Westmore family by the Miss Hope who had married an earlier Westmore, the grim mill-village had been carved.

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

June; and Amherst, some months previously, had asked that she should be permitted to spend it at Hanaford, and that it should be chosen as the date for the opening of the first model cottages at Hopewood.

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

It was Justine who had originated the idea of associating Cicely's anniversaries with some significant moment in the annals of the mill colony; and struck by the happy suggestion, he had at once applied himself to hastening on the work at Hopewood.

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

As she crouched there, with head thrown back, and sparkling lips and eyes, her fair hair -- of her mother's very hue -- making a shining haze about her face, Amherst recalled the winter evening at Hopewood, when he and Bessy had tracked the grey squirrel under the snowy beeches.

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

There was a slight drop in his voice as he designated Bessy, and he waited a moment before continuing: "It was not till after the death of my first wife that I learned of her intention -- that I found by accident, among her papers, this carefully-studied plan for a pleasure-house at Hopewood."

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

Westmore, he longed to convert the abandoned country-seat into a park and playground for the mill-hands; but he knew that the company counted on the gradual sale of Hopewood as a source of profit.

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899