Capitolo 54
you drive or you cross from one to the other lies the woods of far-propagation
and gardens that surround the ducal mansion. Crabbe entered these woods
almost to his a lot of door, and it found there the ample opportunity for his
you study botanical that anchors they were his/her hobby. As usual its place was
that of the tenens_ of _locum, the rector, the Dr. Thomas Parke, residing then to
his other living to Stamford. My friend, the Turn. J.W. the Taylor, the
present rector of Stathern that entered on his/her duties 1866 tells me
of an or two of the traditions of village respect to Crabbe. One of these
it is to the effect that he has spoken "through his/her nose" that I take to have
is the local explanation of an accent of Suffolk marked that it accompanied
the poet through the life. Another, that he was peppery of the temperament and that
a very young couple that is introduced for saint
marriage, Crabbe drove them with contempt from the altar, with the comment
what he had come to marry himself/herself/themselves "men and women there, and not the young fellow and
girls!"
Crabbe told his/her children that the four years to Stathern they were,
on the whole one, the happiest in his/her life. His/her wife and he were in humble
quarters, but they was their his/her own masters, and they was ends of "the
spoiled servile" for never. "My mother and him", his/her child writes, "you/he/she was able
you now err together with their ease among the rich woods of Belvoir
without some of the painful feelings that had in front of chequered his
enjoyment of the place: to house a garden if it allowed him/it healthy
exercise and infallible fun; and his/her situation as a parish priest
prevents him from the being drawn in some kind of unpleasant disputes with
the inhabitants of a village on him"--one ambiguous affirmation that probably,
however he/she wants to say, that the absent rector had to establish the difficulties as to
imposes the tithe and the other parish damages. Crabbe brought again now his/her old man
medical attainments, as them it was, to the help of his/her poor man