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The Supplemental Nights you can procure from the agent, , Farleigh Road, Stoke Newington." As we have seen, Burton's first and second supplemental volumes of the Nights correspond with Mr. Payne's three volumes of Tales from the Arabic.
Very languidly was the sentence spoken. "I'm afraid, doctor, it will be too much for me. You don't know how weak I am. The very thought of such an effort exhausts me." "Not a thought of the effort," replied Dr. Farleigh. "It isn't that." "What is it?" "A thought of appearances of what people will say." "Now, doctor! You don't think me so weak in that direction?"
Occasionally, by way of variety, we pay visits to my friends in England. We are paying one of those visits now. Our host is an old college friend of mine, possessed of a fine estate in Somersetshire; and we have arrived at his house called Farleigh Hall toward the close of the hunting season.
Teston Bridge across the Medway has five arches of carefully wrought stonework and belongs to the fifteenth century, and East Farleigh is a fine example of the same period with four ribbed and pointed arches and four bold cutwaters of wrought stones, one of the best in the country.
Besides its stately churches, Somerset possesses some interesting specimens of mediaeval and Tudor domestic architecture. Ancient hostelries survive at Norton St Philip, Glastonbury, and Dunster. Castles are infrequent in the county, the chief remains being at Taunton, Dunster, and Nunney, and a few fragments at Stoke-Courcey, Harptree, Farleigh Hungerford, and Nether Stowey.
Over the doorway is a semicircular stone bearing a curious Latin inscription, said to be not later than 1200 A.D. It is supposed to have belonged either to an earlier building or to some dismantled church in the neighbourhood. Below the church is Farleigh House, a picturesque modern mansion. Farmborough, a biggish village 8 m. The church is modern, but has a Perp. W. tower.
Before the end of July, Captain Wybrow had written word that Lady Assher and her daughter were about to fly from the heat and gaiety of Bath to the shady quiet of their place at Farleigh, and that he was invited to join the party there.
He declared that she would run the risk of blindness, if she fatigued her weak eyes much longer. There is the only objection to this otherwise invaluable person she will not be able to read to you." "Can she sing and play?" "Exquisitely. Mr. Farleigh answers for her music." "And her character?" "Mr. Halford answers for her character." "And her manners?" "A perfect lady.
'Don't you? said Captain Wybrow, whose perceptions were not acute enough for him to notice the difference of a semitone. 'I should have thought you were fond of it. There was always some on the table at Farleigh, I think. 'You don't seem to take much interest in my likes and dislikes. 'I'm too much possessed by the happy thought that you like me, was the ex officio reply, in silvery tones.
A rough lane striking off to the R. from the Trull road leads to an old Roman causeway crossing a narrow, one-arched bridge locally known as Ramshorn Bridge. Tellisford, a small village 1 m. S. of Farleigh Hungerford. Its church has a passing likeness to that at Farleigh; it preserves within the porch a stoup and a fair Trans. doorway.
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