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fashion is

carried so

much into

the

country

that the

strong

rich

peculiarities

of ancient

rural life

are almost

polished

away. My

father,

however,

from early

years,

took

honest

Peacham

for his

textbook,

instead of

Chesterfield;

he

determined

in his own

mind that

there was

no

condition

more truly

honorable

and

enviable

than that

of a

country

gentleman

on his

paternal

lands, and

therefore

passes the

whole of

his time

on his

estate. He

is a