landscape art painting

Bertram's Hotel has been there a long time. During the war, houses were demolished onthe right of it, and a little farther down on the left of it, but Bertram's itself remained unscathed. Naturally it could not escape being, as houseagents would say, scratched, bruised and marked, but by the expenditure of only areasonable amount of money it was restored to its original condition. By 1955 it lookedprecisely as it had looked in 1939 – dignified,unostentatious, and quietly expensive.
　　Such was Bertram's,patronised over a long stretch of years by the higher echelons of the clergy, dowagerladies of the aristocracy up from the country, girls on their way home for the holidaysfrom expensive fishing schools. ("So few places where a