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Updated: June 14, 2025
I will, however, one of these days, ride over the property with you, which, as well as Miss Percival, I have not as yet seen. "'Then I can tell you, she is a very pretty property. "'If she were not in a ring-fence. "'In good heart, William. That is, I mean an excellent disposition. "'Valuable in matrimony.
"'I dare say it will, uncle, replied William, tapping his foot as he lounged in a green morocco easy-chair; 'and so, because you have set your fancy upon having these two estates enclosed together in a ring-fence, you wish that I should also be enclosed in a ring-fence. "'And a beautiful property it will be, replied Mr Ponsonby. "'Which, uncle? the estate, or the wife?
Thus we perceive that wits actively awake inside the ring-fence of prepossessions they have erected may lull themselves with their wakefulness. Who would have thought! is the cry when the strongest bulwark of the fence is broken through. Jane least of any would have thought what was coming to pass.
She had a pretty fortune, which was of much use in buying a couple of farms, long desiderated by the Chillinglys as necessary for the rounding of their property into a ring-fence.
First comes coldness, and then estrangement; after that words ensue, that don't sound like the voice of true love, and they fish on their own hook, seek their own remedy, take their own road, and one or the other, perhaps both, find that road leads to the devil. Then, there is the "ring-fence match," which happens everywhere.
No spot could have been better chosen for an experiment of this kind, as the whole estate lies within a natural ring-fence, bounded by deep waters on two sides, and cut off from all neighbours on the other by a belt of close forest.
"`I dare say it will, uncle, replied William, tapping his foot as he lounged in a green morocco easy-chair; `and so, because you have set your fancy upon having these two estates enclosed together in a ring-fence, you wish that I should also be enclosed in a ring-fence. "`And a beautiful property it will be, replied Mr Ponsonby. "`Which, uncle? The estate or the wife?
About a year ago, as he was making his way down to the coast with his ivory merchandise, on arrival at Khoko, and before his camp was fortified with a ring-fence of thorns, some of his men went to drink at a well, where they no sooner arrived than the natives began to bean them with sticks, claiming the well as their property.
I asked. Bill looked at me solemnly. "Marriage is a ring-fence round a pretty small patch, as a rule," she observed. "A woman goes into it gladly. She feels young and weak and ignorant, and when she's married she feels safe. But when she grows up to her full stature of mind and body, and she's no longer weak and ignorant, it's different. It's no longer safety first with her."
If the clamour for Imperial preference is to have any practical result, it can only tend to cultivate trade within the British Empire, protected by an economic ring-fence at the expense of the trade which, before the war, we carried on with our present Allies.
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