He rents it of the lord of the manor, who bought it from John Haygarth.

Not a stick of furniture has been removed since our friend Matthew's time; and the rev.

intestate may have wrestled with the mysteries of Euclid on the same old-fashioned mahogany table at which I saw the boy in brown holland.
Mr.Wendover left his books and manuscripts scattered on the floor of the study, and conducted me to a cool shady drawing-room, very shabbily furnished with the spindle-legged chairs and tables of the last century.

Here he begged me to be seated, and here we were ever and anon interrupted by intruding juveniles, the banging of doors, and the shrill clamour of young voices in the hall and garden.
I brought all the diplomacy of which I am master to bear in my long interview with the rector; and the following is a transcript of our conversation, after a good deal of polite skirmishing:-- _Myself_.

You see, my dear sir, the business I am concerned in is remotely connected with these Haygarths.