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For whom was such a house as Beamingham Hall originally built, a house not grand enough for a squire's mansion, and too large for a farmer's homestead? Such houses throughout England are much more numerous than Englishmen think, either still in good repair, as was Beamingham Hall, or going into decay under the lessened domestic wants of the present holders.
At last May was come, and Ralph from Beamingham made up his mind that he also would go up to London.
So he went down into Norfolk among the intermittent fox preservers, and took Beamingham Hall. Almost every place in Norfolk is a "ham," and almost every house is a hall. There was a parish of Beamingham, four miles from Swaffham, lying between Tillham, Soham, Reepham, and Grindham. It's down in all the maps.
Can't, you almost fancy yourself sitting down and throwing stones into the river, or dabbling your feet in it?" "It is very pretty," said he, not caring a penny for the picture. "Have you any river at Beamingham?" "There's a muddy little brook that you could almost jump over. You wouldn't want to dabble in that." "Has it got a name?" "I think they call it the Wissey.
Early in January he went down to Beamingham Hall, as the place was called, and there we will leave him for the present, consoling himself with oil-cake, and endeavouring to take a pride in a long row of stall-fed cattle. At this time the two brothers were living at Newton Priory.
Beamingham Hall was to be sold, and by the beginning of May Ralph Newton had bought it. Beamingham Little Wood belonged to the estate, and, as it contained about thirty acres, Ralph determined that he would endeavour to have a fox there. By the middle of May he had been four months in his new home. The house itself was not bad. It was spacious; and the rooms, though low, were large.
It's not at all a river to be proud of, except in the way of eels and water-rats." "Is there nothing to be proud of at Beamingham?" "There's the church tower; that's all." "A church tower is something; but I meant as to Beamingham Hall." "That word Hall misleads people," said Ralph.
Permission, however, was given, and it was understood that Patience would write to the two young men, Ralph of Beamingham Hall and the parson, asking them to dinner for the day but one following. "As the time is so short, I've written the notes ready," said Patience, producing them from her pocket. Then the bell was rung, and the two notes were confided to Stemm.
When so told he had said nothing of his own ambition, but had felt that there was another reason why he should leave Newton and its neighbourhood. For him, as a bachelor, Beamingham Hall would be only too good a house. He, as a farmer, did not mean to be ashamed of his own dunghill. By the middle of May he had heard nothing either of his namesake or of Mary Bonner.
He has done nothing to offend me." There was a slight smile on her face as she spoke, and the merest hint of a blush on her cheek. "They tell me that Beamingham Hall isn't much of a place after all," said Sir Thomas. "From what Mr. Newton says, it must be a very ugly place," said Mary, with still the same smile and the same hint of a blush; "only I don't quite credit all he tells us."
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