By degrees their sons and sons' descendants settle too, and the same name occurs perhaps in a dozen adjacent places.

It is this fixed unchangeable character of the district which has enabled the mass of the tenants not indeed to become wealthy, but to acquire a solid, substantial standing.

In farming affairs money can be got together only in the slow passage of years; experience has proved that beyond a doubt.
These people have been stationary for a length of time, and the moss of the proverb has grown around them.

They walk sturdily, and look all men in the face; their fathers put money in the purse.

Times are hard here as everywhere, but if they cannot, for the present season, put more in that purse, its contents are not, at all events, much diminished, and enable them to maintain the same straightforward manliness and independence.
By-and-by, they know there will come the chink of the coin again.
When the tenant is stationary, the labourer is also.