MARY, A DAUGHTER OF THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY. A Novel BY THE AUTHOR OF "HIGHLAND SPORTS AND PASTIMES," "EXMOOR," "BROOKLANDS," MARY A DAUGHTER OF THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY. CHAPTER I. Nobility is not only in dignity and ancient lineage, not in great revenues, lands or possessions, but in wisdom knowledge, and virtue-which in man is very nobility -and this nobility bringeth men to dignity. ought to be given to virtue, not riches. Honour ANACHARSIS. IN one of the finest agricultural counties among the many of which England has reason to be proud, intersected by a broad river, and VOL. I. B |