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Updated: June 22, 2025
A pile that as it is, is only too reminiscent of the florid imaginings of the Gothic revival. The expensive eccenticities of Beckford he was a collector of everything costly brought about the sale of Fonthill and a retirement to Bath. Not long after the new owner, a millionaire named Farquhar, had entered into possession, the central tower fell and ruined most of the "gingerbread" beneath.
The situation, overlooking a sheet of water formed out of one of the feeders of the Nadder, is beautiful in the extreme. Hindon, about two miles north-west of Fonthill Giffard, is a small town fallen from the ancient state that it held when it refused Disraeli the honour of representing it in Parliament.
"Before he could take advantage of his success, I sprang at his throat, grasped his sword-arm with my left hand, and, shortening my stump of a weapon, drove the point through his breast. "He uttered a cry, staggered, and threw up his hands; I released my clutch on his arm; and he fell heavily backward into the grave. "'Now to end all, I said, and I set out rapidly for Fonthill."
It was pleasant to see and talk with the little people occupied with the task they loved so well, and I made up my mind to see the result of all this flower-gathering next day in some of the village churches in the neighbourhood Fovant, Teffant Evias, Chilmark, Swallowcliffe, Tisbury, and Fonthill Bishop.
Came from Fonthill, I believe. Admirably suited for a religious picture, Mr. Gray." "I am so sorry you have given yourself the trouble of coming round, Mr. Ashton. I will certainly drop in and look at the frame, though I don't go in much for religious art, but to-day I only want a picture carried to the top of the house for me.
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