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In your house or in the open, the scent of the mildewed grain always in your nostrils, and in your ears no music but the wind's rustle amongst the fat sheaves! And, worst of all, your wife's heart a granary bursting with the load of shame your profligacy has stored there! I warn you Mr. Lawrence Kenward!
There, jumbled together, he will find names marking the noblest Saxon or Angle blood Kenward or Kenric, Osgood or Osborne, side by side with Cordery or Banister now names of farmers in my own parish or other Norman-French names which may be, like those two last, in Battle Abbey roll and side by side the almost ubiquitous Brown, whose ancestor was probably some Danish or Norwegian house-carle, proud of his name Biorn the Bear, and the ubiquitous Smith or Smythe, the Smiter, whose forefather, whether he be now peasant or peer, assuredly handled the tongs and hammer at his own forge.
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