Frances Milton Trollope
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 56
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... ERRATA. VOL.1. Page 2, line 9, for never seen, read never sear. 66, 6 from bottom, for some, read none. 75, 11, for himself, read herself. 90, t 3 from bottom.for pine, read nine. 103, 3 delefs of, before lursthearls. W7, 7, for polite, read politic . 141, 3, for bonnet, read baronet. VOL. II. Page 223, line 12, for than his bosom, read than had ev before troubled his bosom. VOL. III. Page 3, line 3, for lord, read land. 3!), last.for body, read lady. 101, b from bottom, for strollen, read stolen. THE VICAR OF WREXHILL. CHAPTER I. TTIE VILLAGE OF WREXHILL THE MOWBRAY FAMILTV-- A BIRTHDAY. Thb beauties of an English village have been so often dwelt upon, so often described, that I dare not linger long upon the sketch of Wrexhill, which mu6t of necessity precede my]introduction of its vicar. And yet not even England can show many points of greater beauty than this oak-sheltered spot can display. Its peculiar style of scenery, half garden, half forest in aspect, is familiar to all who are acquainted with the New Forest, although it has features entirely its own. One of these is an overshot mill, the sparkling fall of which is vOL. i. accurately and most nobly overarched by a pair of oaks which have long been the glory of the parish. Another is the grey and mellow beauty of its antique church, itself unencumbered by ivy, while the wall and old stone gateway of the churchyard look like a line and knot of sober green, enclosing it with such a rich and unbroken luxuriance of foliage "never seen," as seems to show that it is held sacred, and that no hand profane ever ventured to rob its venerable mass of a leaf or a berry. Close beside the church, and elevated by a very...