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Gryll Grange, by the Author of 'headlong Hall'.
Gryll Grange by the Author of 'headlong Hall' Author:Thomas Love Peacock General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. Millo liiiiiiinuni upecicn, ct rcrum discolor usus: Velio mium cuique out, noo voto vivitur uno. -- Persius. In mind unJ taste men differ as in frame : Kach him his special will, and few the same. THE REVEREND DOCTOR OP1M1AN. T strikes me as singular that, with such a house, you should have only female domestics. MR. FALCONER. It is not less singular perhaps that they are seven sisters, all the children of two old servants of my father and mother. The eldest is about my own age, twenty- six, so that they have all grown up with me in time and place. They live in great harmony together, and divide among them the charge of all the household duties. Those whom you saw are the two youngest. THE REVEREND DOCTOR OPIMIAN. If the others acquit themselves as well, you have a very efficient staff; but seven young women as the establishment of one young bachelor, for such I presume you to be (Mr. Falconer assented), is something new and strange. The world is not over charitable. MR. FALCONER. The world will never suppose a good motive, where it can suppose a bad one. I would not willingly offend any of its prejudices. I would not affect eccentricity. At the same time, I do not feel disposed to be put out of my way because it is not the way of the world -- Le Chemin du Monde, as a Frenchman entitled Congreve's comedy -- but I assure you these seven young women live here as they might do in the temple of Vesta. It was a singular combination of circumstances that induced aud enabled me to form such an establishment; but I would not give it up, nor alter it, nor diminish it, nor increase it, ...« less