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XXVI. Is ALDINGTON THE ROMAN ANTONA?........................ 294
INDEX....................................................... 306


"Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely!
Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery!"
_3 King Henry VI_.

"When I paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights
I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible
entertainment which the country offers."
--THOREAU.

"Life is sweet, brother.... There's night and day, brother,
both sweet things; sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet
things; there's likewise the wind on the heath. Life is very
sweet, brother; who would wish to die?"
--BORROW: _Jasper Petulengro_.


GRAIN AND CHAFF FROM AN ENGLISH MANOR


CHAPTER I.

ALDINGTON VILLAGE--THE MANOR HOUSE--THE FARM.
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends."
--_Hamlet_.
"Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns.


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