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They had left Boxhill and Headley Heath upon the left, and the towers of Reigate were rising amid the trees in front of them, when they overtook a large, cheery, red-faced man, with a forked beard, riding upon a good horse and exchanging a nod or a merry word with all who passed him.
The Surrey Side The Chalk Downs Guildford The Hog's Back Albury Down Archbishop Abbot St. Catharine's Chapel St. Martha's Chapel Albury Park John Evelyn Henry Drummond Aldershot Camp Leith Hill Redland's Wood Holmwood Park Dorking Weller and the Marquis of Granby Inn Deepdene Betchworth Castle The River Mole Boxhill The Fox and Hounds The Denbies Ranmore Common Battle of Dorking Wotton Church Epsom Reigate Pierrepoint House Longfield The Weald of Kent Goudhurst Bedgebury Park Kilndown Cranbrook Bloody Baker's Prison Sissinghurst Bayham Abbey Tunbridge Castle Tunbridge Wells Penshurst Sir Philip Sidney Hever Castle Anne Boleyn Knole Leeds Castle Tenterden Steeple and the Goodwin Sands Rochester Gad's Hill Chatham Canterbury Cathedral St. Thomas
Now, the mass of chalk which has been carried away began behind you, at the Hogsback, and the line of chalk-hills which runs to Boxhill, and stretched hundreds of feet above your head as you stand on Hind Head or Leith Hill, right over the old Weald of Sussex to the chalk of the South Downs. And out of the scourings of that vast mass of chalk was our gravel-pit made.
The privacy of Boxhill has been respected; next to never has Meredith spoken in any public way and seldom visited London. When he was, at Tennyson's death, made the President of the British Society of Authors, the honor sought the man. The rest is silence; what has appeared since his death has been of too conflicting a nature for credence. We await a trustworthy biography.
"These sermons," he says, "ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings of watering-places, were laid in the windows of inns, and were to be met with in all places of public resort.... We remember finding the volume in the orchard of the inn at Burford Bridge, near Boxhill, and passing a whole and very delightful morning in reading it without quitting the shade of an apple tree."
They were close to the crest of Boxhill, and below them lay spread out what is perhaps the finest, because the richest in human and historic associations, view in Southern England.
"I hope I may be able to return to this place; for, to assist in directing attention to Jerusalem, and thus to render the Bible more easily understood, seems to me to be a humble way in which, perhaps, I may aid in doing some good." Here is a portion of a letter written in England: "The railway from Farnborough went through a most beautiful country, by Guildford, Dorking, and Boxhill.
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