sta-a-arden

Updated: May 11, 2025

"The Meredyths," said Mrs. Bonner, "hev lived at Starden" she called it 'Sta-a-arden' "oh, I wouldn't like to say for how long, centuries anyhow. Then for a time things got despirit with them, and the place was sold. Bought it was by Mr. Gorridge, a London gentleman. Thirty years he lived here. I remember him buying it; I would be about eighteen then, just before I married Bonner.

Henry St. John Cooper - The Imaginary Marriage