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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER III
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He is, however, most pleasantly situated.

"Fifteen years ago," said he to me as I alighted at the gate of his shrubbery, "I was taken up in Piccadilly and set down here.

There was no house, and no garden; nothing but a bare field." One service this eccentric divine has certainly rendered to the Church.
He has built the very neatest, most commodious, and most appropriate rectory that I ever saw.

All its decorations are in a peculiarly clerical style; grave, simple, and gothic.

The bed-chambers are excellent, and excellently fitted up; the sitting-rooms handsome; and the grounds sufficiently pretty.


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