Old and Young (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 22 CHAPTER III. THE PARSON AND HIS BELONGINGS. " We will go over and see the Rector, when you have finished that bottle of sherry," said Camden. " Ready at once, sir," said the nephew, emptying his glass. " I want your opinion of the Rector, Horace. Seeing him every day, I cannot judge; and now, after a year's absence, you will be able to give a better report and say if he seems aged or altered. Give me your arm, my boy. I declare you are an inch and a half taller. No changes in the old garden, you see, except that we have more hollyhocks and tiger-lilies." " I missed the pond by the gate." " Ah, yes: ' fountains,' you know, ' are a great beauty and refreshment, but pools mar all, and make the garden unwholesome and full of flies and frogs;' so I found, and abolished the pond accordingly." THE KECTOB. 23 " I think, though, that the same authority says that statues and such things ' add to the state and magnificence but not to the true pleasure of a garden,' and there, O uncle, are two urns and the Antinous not yet overthrown; be consistent and an iconoclast!" " I believe if I were to break that image I should break Mrs. Applebee's heart at the same time; and remember, if Bacon says a good thing at the middle of his Essay, he may yet say a very foolish thing at the end of it.?But here we are " The Rector was seated with his daughter in the parlour, with the Gentleman's Magazine in his hand, which he was reading aloud when Camden and his nephew interrupted him. Charles Winter- ingham was ten years older than Camden Lyde: somewhat shorter in stature, but very upright; his head was nowise inferior in indications of capacity; his mouth handsome, his eyes lively, his forehead broad. When you knew him you discovered peculiarities in his manner; he was ...