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Thus she grew in a spot as sunny, as sheltered, and as holy as do the violets which her biographer tells us abound beneath the south wall of Steventon church. It was impossible that she should have the experiences of Miss Bronte or Madame Sand, and without some experience the most vivid imagination cannot act, or can act only in the production of mere chimeras.
Crayford," said Steventon. "I am not afraid," Mrs. Crayford replied. "He frightened me at first he interests me now. Let him speak to me if he wishes it!" He never spoke. He stood, in dead silence, looking long and anxiously at the beautiful Englishwoman. "Well?" said Steventon. He shook his head sadly, and drew back again with a heavy sigh. "No!" he said to himself, "that's not her face.
Clerke, the solicitor, being dead, of a cold, after being not above two days ill, which troubles me mightily, poor man! 2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning upon some accounts of Sir D. Gawden, and at noon abroad with W. Hewer, thinking to have found Mr. Wren at Captain Cox's, to have spoke something to him about doing a favour for Will's uncle Steventon, but missed him.
Without waiting for a reply, she again turned to Steventon, and surprised him by changing the painful subject of the conversation of her own accord. "Have you been in the Highlands of Scotland?" she asked. "I have never been in the Highlands," the lieutenant replied. "Have you ever read, in books about the Highlands, of such a thing as 'The Second Sight'?" "Yes."
The Reverend George Austen preached at Steventon for years and years, and I should go and see the church the same church where he preached and where Jane Austen used to go. And anything I wanted to know about Jane Austen's books the Rector could tell, for he was a wonderful learned man was the Rector "Kiss the gentleman, Jane."
Crayford made a last vain effort to check her inquiries at the point which they had now reached. "Neither Steventon nor I were members of the party of relief," he said. "How are we to answer you?" "Your brother officers who were members of the party must have told you what happened," Clara rejoined. "I only ask you and Mr. Steventon to tell me what they told you." Mrs.
And science with all its ingenuity has not yet pointed out a better way for acquiring a new language than the plan the Austens adopted at Steventon Rectory. We call it the "Berlitz Method" now. Madame Fenillade's widowhood rested lightly upon her, and she became quite the life of the whole household.
How he got to Steventon he hardly recollected; but gradually he came to himself, and found himself in a first-class of the Great Western, proceeding rapidly towards London. He then looked about him to ascertain who his fellow-travellers were. The farther compartment was full of passengers, who seemed to form one party, talking together with great volubility and glee.
The church is unremarkable except that the nave has Norman pillars with arches of a later date above them. The fine old manor house near the railway station is called Quidhampton. After passing Ashe we reach Deane, where a road to the right leads in a mile and a half to Steventon, at the rectory of which village Jane Austen was born in 1775, her father holding the incumbency for many years.
The Reverend Patrick Bronte disciplined his children: George Austen loved his. In Steventon there is no "Black Bull"; only a little dehorned inn, kept by a woman who breeds canaries, and will sell you a warranted singer for five shillings, with no charge for the cage. At Steventon no red-haired Yorkshiremen offer to give fight or challenge you to a drinking-bout.
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