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With this in view he took her out for a walk, a custom of his when he wished to say anything specially1 impressive. Their way was over the top of that lofty ridge2 dividing their woodland from the cider district, whence they had in the spring beheld3 the miles of apple-trees in bloom. All was now deep green. The spot recalled to Grace’s mind the last occasion of her presence there, and she said, “The promise of an enormous apple-crop is fulfilling itself, is it not? I suppose Giles is getting his mills and presses ready.”
This was just what her father had not come there to talk about. Without replying he raised his arm, and moved his finger till he fixed4 it at a point. “There,” he said, “you see that plantation5 reaching over the hill like a great slug, and just behind the hill a particularly green sheltered bottom? That’s where Mr. Fitzpiers’s family were lords of the manor6 for I don’t know how many hundred years, and there stands the village of Buckbury Fitzpiers. A wonderful property ’twas — wonderful!”
“But they are not lords of the manor there now.”
“Why, no. But good and great things die as well as little and foolish. The only ones representing the family now, I believe, are our doctor and a maiden7 lady living I don’t know where. You can’t help being happy, Grace, in allying yourself with such a romantical family. You’ll feel as if you’ve stepped into history.”
“We’ve been at Hintock as long as they’ve been at Buckbury; is it not so? You say our name occurs in old deeds continually.”
“Oh yes — as yeomen, copyholders, and such like. But think how much better this will be for ‘ee. You’ll be living a high intellectual life, such as has now become natural to you; and though the doctor’s practice is small here, he’ll no doubt go to a dashing town when he’s got his hand in, and keep a
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withdrawal
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妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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