strength31 Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:54 pmAbercrombie Clearance by treating
k< In the first place, because there was no village, and con¬sequently no*children. A landscape gafdener, with much taste and no benevolence, had persuaded Lord Badlesrnere to pull down the old hamlet, where their ancestors and his had been reared together for two centuries with mutual benefit. In the next, I had become so much richer than my mother at the grange, that this little milk donation, being like so much water, gave me none of that self-satisfaction, though small, which one feels in giving up something to the wants of another. Besides, to admit a parcel of little paupers so near so noble a residence disturbed the ideas of respect due to my lord's gentleman, if not to nqy lord himself; and all such were chased away, either by the dogs or the stable boys, who had orders to that effect."I loved my host for these sentiments."Still, however," said I, "you could Abercrombie and Fitch Outlet not be in a desert, as you revelled, you say, in company."" Hinc illce lacryma," returned he. " Though I thought the only good of those eternal moors would be to Abercrombie Outlet keep off visitors, not only that failed, but I was forced to return the visits. Oh, the yawns and shiverings 1 have had while count¬ing the minutes. I may say the hours, which it took me to cross them ; for there being no intervening post-houses, my horses were obliged to drag me slowly along ; and when f got to the promised land, and was plunged into what I sought, the society of my country neighbours, as they were called, though thirty, and some of them forty miles off—alas! tell it not in Gath—the very thought of it makes me yawn at this distance of time."Here he suited the action to the word so emphatically, that I burst out a laughing, and could hardly ask him what there was in the recollection that so moved him.You," replied he," who have had the good fortune to be unacquainted with any but the natural tone and manners of those of your own age, and of the same pursuits, can scarce imagine the torrent of dulness and constraint which you will sometimes be doomed to meet with in what is called society. You yet know nothing of ennui. But of all society, deliver me from that which presses you to earth in the country ; from which there is no escape, and which you are bound by convention to undergo in Abercrombie Clearance a remote county. In town, you may choose ; near town, you may shut yourself up if you please; nobody will mind you. There are enough, and to spare. But at Bolton-le-Moors
k< In the first place, because there was no village, and con¬sequently no*children. A landscape gafdener, with much taste and no benevolence, had persuaded Lord Badlesrnere to pull down the old hamlet, where their ancestors and his had been reared together for two centuries with mutual benefit. In the next, I had become so much richer than my mother at the grange, that this little milk donation, being like so much water, gave me none of that self-satisfaction, though small, which one feels in giving up something to the wants of another. Besides, to admit a parcel of little paupers so near so noble a residence disturbed the ideas of respect due to my lord's gentleman, if not to nqy lord himself; and all such were chased away, either by the dogs or the stable boys, who had orders to that effect."I loved my host for these sentiments."Still, however," said I, "you could Abercrombie and Fitch Outlet not be in a desert, as you revelled, you say, in company."" Hinc illce lacryma," returned he. " Though I thought the only good of those eternal moors would be to Abercrombie Outlet keep off visitors, not only that failed, but I was forced to return the visits. Oh, the yawns and shiverings 1 have had while count¬ing the minutes. I may say the hours, which it took me to cross them ; for there being no intervening post-houses, my horses were obliged to drag me slowly along ; and when f got to the promised land, and was plunged into what I sought, the society of my country neighbours, as they were called, though thirty, and some of them forty miles off—alas! tell it not in Gath—the very thought of it makes me yawn at this distance of time."Here he suited the action to the word so emphatically, that I burst out a laughing, and could hardly ask him what there was in the recollection that so moved him.You," replied he," who have had the good fortune to be unacquainted with any but the natural tone and manners of those of your own age, and of the same pursuits, can scarce imagine the torrent of dulness and constraint which you will sometimes be doomed to meet with in what is called society. You yet know nothing of ennui. But of all society, deliver me from that which presses you to earth in the country ; from which there is no escape, and which you are bound by convention to undergo in Abercrombie Clearance a remote county. In town, you may choose ; near town, you may shut yourself up if you please; nobody will mind you. There are enough, and to spare. But at Bolton-le-Moors
