Read the excerpt below from The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. Then, highlight all of the Conjunctions (subordinating and coordinating) It stood upon a low hill, above the river—the river being the Thames at some forty miles from London. A long gabled front of red brick, with
the complexion of which time and the weather had played all sorts of pictorial tricks, only, however, to improve and refine it, presented to the
lawn its patches of ivy, its clustered chimneys, its windows smothered in creepers. The house had a name and a history, the old gentleman
taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how it had been built under Edward the Soxth, had offered a night's
hospitality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extended itself upon a huge, magnificent and terribly angular bed which still
formed the principal honour of the sleeping apartments), had been a good deal bruised and defaced in Cromwell's wars, and then, under the
Restoration, repaired and much enlarged, and how, finally, after having been remodelled and disfigured in the eighteenth century, it had
passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstances too complicated
to set forth) it was offered at a great bargain: bought it with much grumbling at its ugliness, its antiquity, its incommodity, and who now, at
the end of twenty years, had become conscious of a real aesthetic passion for it, so that he knew all its points and would tell you just where
to stand to see them in combination and just the hour when the shadows of its various protuberances which fell so softly upon the warm.
weary brickwork-were of the right measure. Besides this, as I have said, he could have counted off most of the successive owners and
occupants, several of whom were known to general fame; doing so, however, with an undemonstrative conviction that the latest phase of its
destiny was not the least honourable. The front of the house overlooking that portion of the lawn with which we are concerned was not the
entrance-front: this was in quite another quarter. Privacy here reigned supreme, and the wide carpet of turf that covered the level hill-top
seemed but the extension of a luxurious interior. The great still oaks and beeches fiung down a shade as dense as that of velvet curtains;
and the place was furnished, like a room, with cushioned seats, with rich-coloured rugs, with the books and papers that lay upon the grass.
The river was at some distance, where the ground began to slope the lawn, properly speaking, ceased. But it was none the less a charming
walk down to the water