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In October of that year Arthur took her to visit Boar's Hill, near Oxford, in legend so named because a scholar attacked by a boar there choked it to death by stuffing a copy of Thucydides in its mouth.

The view was famous, the air clear.

He wanted to buy 60 acres to build a home for Margaret on the hill.

She approved the location, so he convinced his father to put up the money.

Then he had the tops of the pines cut, eight feet from the ground, on which he had built a platform and a log cabin to serve as a temporary quarters while the mansion was being built.

His intent was to keep her from the cold, damp ground.

Apparently she never lived there.

They were away again for the winter, Margaret to winter with her sister in Bordighera, Arthur to Sicily to complete the last volume of the history he and Freeman had begun together.