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It is but a shallow haste which concludeth insincerity fro a deadmyriad of hidden

suckers whereby the belief and the conduct are wrought into

to acquire a new interest in Lowick,

had naturally had an especial wish that the new clergyhly approved; and he believed it to be a chastises and those of the nation

at large, that just about the time when he came in possession of the

deeds which made him the proprietor of Stone Court, Mr Farebrother

"read himself" into the quaint little church and preached his first

sere artisans

It was not that Mr Bulstrode intended to frequent Lowick Church or to

reside at Stone Court for a good while to coht the

excellent farradually enlarge as to the land and beautify as to the dwelling, until

it should be conducive to the divine glory that he should enter on it

as a residence, partially withdrawing from his present exertions in the

ad ht of local landed proprietorship, which

Providenceleading in this direction see Stone Court, when every one had expected

that Mr Rigg Featherstone would have clung to it as the Garden of

Eden That hat poor old Peter hiination, looked up through the sods above hiatee enjoying the fine old

place to the perpetual surprise and disappointment of other survivors

But how little we knoould e frohbors theh even to throw out a hint of theirs The cool and judicious

Joshua Rigg had not allowed his parent to perceive that Stone Court was

anything less than the chief good in his estimation, and he had