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Dr Fitzpiers lived on the slope of the hill, in a house of nitude, than the

timber-merchant's The latter had, without doubt, been once the

and modest domain of Little

Hintock, of which the boundaries were now lost by its absorption with

others of its kind into the adjoining estate of Mrs Charh

the Melburys themselves were unaware of the fact, there was every

reason to believe--at least so the parson said that the owners of that

little manor had been Melbury's own ancestors, the fa to transfers of land about the

ti, on the contrary, was se-like, and

comparatively modern It had been occupied, and was in part occupied

still, by a retired fareon's arrival

in quest of a ho from their front

rooms into the kitchen quarter, whence they adular intervals to receive froe and its garden were so regular in their arrangener of the tie-shape, was a

door over which the hedge forht path, bordered with clipped box, ran up the slope of