The Yellow Wallpaper

The mansion the couple have rented is an ancestral home. The narrator initially feels there's something wrong with the house.... there has to be a reason no one stays there. None-the-less, she find he mansion beautiful, like a place form long ago, and she describes the gardens as "delicious". Some areas of the estate have been neglected, and the narrator also mentions that legal troubles were the reason it had been empty for years.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people.

There is a DELICIOUS garden! I never saw such a garden—large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.