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The starting-point of Crabbe's desire to portray village-life truly was a certain indignation he felt at the then still-surviving conventions of the Pastoral Poets. We have lately watched, in the literature of our own day, a somewhat similar reaction against sentimental pictures of country-life.
"But what has the mistress of the house to do with washing?" "What has she to do with washing? Oh, you sweet innocent pardon my familiarity, but such ignorance of country-life customs is very touching in one who is writing a book about them." "Oh, I have no doubt I am very ignorant," said Minora loftily.
Bessie returned to Arden, married the master of Willerton Hall, and slid into the easy grooves of a happy, luxurious country-life; while Zelma rode for a few proud years on the topmost swell of popular favor, then suddenly passed away beyond the horizon of London life, and so, as it were, out of the world.
Thus, in the course of fourteen years' literary work, his thoughts make excursions from town-life to country-life, from social satire to story-telling, from art to ethnology, from theology to opera-bouffe! Almost the whole of Clarke's life may be said to have been devoted to the supply of some temporary demand of the periodical press or the stage.
They were nearly all of them people who had been neighbours of the Caresfoot family for years in many instances for generations and as intimate with its members as the high-stomached stiffness of English country-life will allow.
She was tired after her long voyage, and she preferred the quiet of Greyhope; she was fond of riding and country-life; but still she would come to town for a time." And so on. "Ah, dear me, how charming! And doesn't she resent her husband's absence during the honeymoon? or did the honeymoon occur before she came over to England?"
It is the story of a ploughman that I set out to tell you, and will tell you forthwith. I had been gazing for a long time and with profound sadness at Holbein's ploughman, and I was walking in the fields, musing upon country-life and the destiny of the husbandman.
He declared himself tired of his useless life, disgusted with society; it was always the same, one never found any truth, any sincerity. She would have liked to know what town-life was like but she was convinced beforehand that society would never be so pleasant as a country-life.
I must confess I am infinitely delighted with those speculations of nature which are to be made in a country-life; and as my reading has very much lain among books of natural history, I cannot forbear recollecting, upon this occasion, the several remarks which I have met with in authors, and comparing them with what falls under my own observation; the arguments for Providence drawn from the natural history of animals, being, in my opinion, demonstrative.
A dog-kennel and a beehive stood outside, like symbols of old English country-life; the moon was rising behind a plantation of prosperous pear trees, the dog that came out of the kennel was reverend-looking and reluctant to bark; and the plain, elderly man-servant who opened the door was brief but dignified.
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