a few
centuries
earlier,
when
England
was
itself,
and had
its
peculiar
manners
and
customs.
As he
lives at
some
distance
from the
main road,
in rather
a lonely
part of
the
country,
without
any rival
gentry
near him,
he has
that most
enviable
of all
blessings
to an
Englishman,
an
opportunity
of
indulging
the bent
of his own
humor
without
molestation.
Being
representative
of the
oldest
family in
the
