The church has stood since the Conquest, and, as it still stands, grey and fine, with its mass of square tower, and despite the state of its roof, is not yet given wholly to the winds and weather, it will, no doubt, stand a few centuries longer.

The Court, however, cannot long remain a possible habitation, if it is not given a new lease of life.

I do not mean that it will crumble to-morrow, or the day after, but we should not think it habitable now, even while we should admit that nothing could be more delightful to look at.

The cottages in the village are already, many of them, amazing, when regarded as the dwellings of human beings.

How long ago the cottagers gave up expecting that anything in particular would be done for them, I do not know.