repair

A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.

It was in the private sitting-room to which we afterwards repaired that Holmes asked Baskerville what were his intentions.

I have no doubt that, in spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night.”

The central portion was in little better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided.