strength31 Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:52 pmI Abercrombie Clearance gave
Of what might be the consequence of this, I had no pre¬cise, or indeed any idea ; but 1 felt a sort of secret conscious¬ness of something good that time might reveal, the nature of which was confused but flattering (thanks to my sanguine temper), nor could 1 prevent a favourable vision of the world from rising in the distance to my view.My reverie of a minute, upon this subject, when the de¬parture of the servants left us to our wine and fruit, was in¬terrupted by my host, who observed,We talked before dinner of the force of early associa¬tions, to which, perhaps, from the few trifling instances I Abercrombie Clearance gave of them, you thought me a votary. What will you say when I tell you that it is to them I owe my being here—to the abandonment of a very different and much finer place in the north ?I heard," said I, " from the omniscient Gayford, that you preferred this, because you were born and Abercrombie and Fitch Outlet bred here, to some fine seat you had elsewhere."He was no more than right," replied Mr. Manners. " Blackdown Castle, in Bolton-le-Moors, would look upon this with contempt, and I believe I am not a little despised, by men of supposed high minds, for having left it so soon to itself. What is worse, by the charitable world (which al¬ways sits in judgment upon other people's motions, though ever so ignorJk of them), I was summoned, tried, and found guilty of miserly stinginess, in leaving it for this less expen¬sive, but happier abode. It was impossible, they said, for any one to be so swayed by the force of habit, or attachment to the scenes of his youth, as to Abercrombie Outlet prefer what they called a cot¬tage, in comparison tq a feudal castle. 1 ventured to dissent from their opinions."" It did," said he; " for say what one will of the attrac - tions of grandeur and the enjoyments of wealth, one beat of the heart, occasioned by any fond or happy recollection in¬spired by either sight or sound, will make magnificence sink to nothing in the comparison. This oldiashioned, moated grange was the seat of my fathers; a fair and comfortable provision for the younger branches of any family, however high.
Of what might be the consequence of this, I had no pre¬cise, or indeed any idea ; but 1 felt a sort of secret conscious¬ness of something good that time might reveal, the nature of which was confused but flattering (thanks to my sanguine temper), nor could 1 prevent a favourable vision of the world from rising in the distance to my view.My reverie of a minute, upon this subject, when the de¬parture of the servants left us to our wine and fruit, was in¬terrupted by my host, who observed,We talked before dinner of the force of early associa¬tions, to which, perhaps, from the few trifling instances I Abercrombie Clearance gave of them, you thought me a votary. What will you say when I tell you that it is to them I owe my being here—to the abandonment of a very different and much finer place in the north ?I heard," said I, " from the omniscient Gayford, that you preferred this, because you were born and Abercrombie and Fitch Outlet bred here, to some fine seat you had elsewhere."He was no more than right," replied Mr. Manners. " Blackdown Castle, in Bolton-le-Moors, would look upon this with contempt, and I believe I am not a little despised, by men of supposed high minds, for having left it so soon to itself. What is worse, by the charitable world (which al¬ways sits in judgment upon other people's motions, though ever so ignorJk of them), I was summoned, tried, and found guilty of miserly stinginess, in leaving it for this less expen¬sive, but happier abode. It was impossible, they said, for any one to be so swayed by the force of habit, or attachment to the scenes of his youth, as to Abercrombie Outlet prefer what they called a cot¬tage, in comparison tq a feudal castle. 1 ventured to dissent from their opinions."" It did," said he; " for say what one will of the attrac - tions of grandeur and the enjoyments of wealth, one beat of the heart, occasioned by any fond or happy recollection in¬spired by either sight or sound, will make magnificence sink to nothing in the comparison. This oldiashioned, moated grange was the seat of my fathers; a fair and comfortable provision for the younger branches of any family, however high.
