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'I like a county in which there is so,' said Lady Carbury 'Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Cheshire and Lancashire have becoreat towns, and have lost all local distinctions'

'We still keep our name and reputation,' said the bishop; 'silly Suffolk!'

'But that was never deserved'

'As eneral epithets I think we are a sleepy people We've got no coal, you see, and no iron We have no beautiful scenery, like the lake country,--no rivers great for fishing, like Scotland,--no hunting grounds, like the shires'

'Partridges!' pleaded Lady Carbury, with pretty energy

'Yes; we have partridges, fine churches, and the herring fishery We shall do very well if too much is not expected of us We can't increase and reat cities'

'I like this part of England so much the best for that very reason What is the use of a crowded population?'

'The earth has to be peopled, Lady Carbury'

'Oh, yes,' said her ladyship, with so that the bishop was probably adverting to a divine arrangement 'The world must be peopled; but for myself I like the country better than the town'

'So do I,' said Roger; 'and I like Suffolk The people are hearty, and radicalism is not quite so rampant as it is elsewhere The poor people touch their hats, and the rich people think of the poor There is solish habits'

'That is so nice,' said Lady Carbury

'Sonorance,' said the bishop 'All the sa, like the rest of the world What beautiful flowers you have here, Mr Carbury! At any rate, we can groers in Suffolk'

Mrs Yeld, the bishop's wife, was sitting next to the priest, and was in truth sohbour She was, perhaps, a little stauncher than her husband in Protestantisht not have ceased to be a gentleman when he became a Roman Catholic priest, she was not quite sure that it was expedient for her or her husband to have much to do with hiiven that the priest was to be there, and the bishop had declared that he would be very happy to s She never ventured to insist on her opinion after the bishop had expressed his; but she had an idea that right was right, and wrong wrong,--and that Roht to be put down And she thought also that if there were no priests there would be no Roood family, which did make a difference