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"I have read your paper in the Archaeological Transactions on the history of Langborough Abbey. It excited my imagination, which is never excited in reading ordinary histories. In your essay I am in company with the men who actually lived in the time of Henry the Second and Henry the Eighth. I went over the ruins again, and found them much more beautiful after I understood something about them."
"They are not too frequent for me: they may be for yourself." "Ah! since I last entered your house I have not seen any books excepting my own. You hardly know what life in Langborough is like." "Does nobody take any interest in archaeology?" "Nobody within five miles. Sinclair cares nothing about it: he is Low Church, as I have told you." "Why does that prevent his caring about it?"
Remember that the world is very big, and that there may be room in it for a few creatures like Your affectionate godfather, G. L. The town of Langborough in 1839 had not been much disturbed since the beginning of the preceding century.
"When the cackling of the geese or the braying of the asses on Langborough Common prevent my crossing it, then, and not till then, will my course be determined by Mrs. Bingham and her colleagues." He sat down again with his elbow on the arm of the chair and half shading his eyes with his hand. His whole manner altered.
"Richard Leighton of Trinity: it is not a common name, but it cannot be he have lost sight of him for years; heard he was married, and came to no good." He was able to watch her for a minute as she stood by the table giving some directions to her child, who was sent on an errand. In that minute he saw her as she had not been seen by anybody in Langborough. To Mrs. Bingham and her friends Mrs.
He enlarges it out of his own head, and instructs his silly, ignorant friends to do the same. He will not be satisfied with what God and the Church tell him." "God and the Church, according to Dr. Midleton's account, have not been very effective in Langborough." "They hear from me, madam, all I am commissioned to say, and if they do not attend I cannot help it"
In a couple of months Langborough was astounded at the news of the Rector's marriage with a Mrs. Leighton whom nobody in Langborough knew. The advertisement in the Stamford Mercury said that the lady was the widow of Richard Leighton, Esq., and eldest daughter of the late Marmaduke Sutton, Esq. Langborough spared no pains to discover who she was. Mrs.
He was respected and feared more than any other man in the parish. He had a great library, and had taken up archaeology as a hobby. He knew the history of every church in the county, and more about the Langborough records than was known by the town clerk. He was chairman of a Board of Governors charged with the administration of wealthy trust for alms and schools.
The solitary scholar never forsook his studies, but at times he sighed over them and they seemed a little vain. They were not entirely without external effect, for Pope and Swift in disguise often spoke to the vestry or the governors, and the Doctor's manners even in the shops were moulded by his intercourse with the classic dead. Their names, however, in Langborough were almost unknown.
Fairfax asked him to step into the back parlour, into which no one in Langborough had hitherto been admitted. Gowns were tried on in the shop, the door being bolted and the blind drawn. Dr. Midleton found four little shelves of books on the cupboard by the side of the fireplace. Some were French, but most of them were English.
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