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Very glad I shall be to see my Father again.
Dr Hussey and Mr.
Willott called yesterday afternoon: the Dr
talked grand nonsense, and abused in his way
Dr Arnott— “An excellent
man, oh excellent, but no particular merit as a schoolmaster, many better
scholars— I would not have sent my son to him for anything—not
sound, not sound”—and then looking round with an awesome voice
“and we all know what that will come to” He declared unsound
religion was far worse than none at all. Poor little Mr. Willott could hardly get a word
in sideways; I have got him to try to talk over old Price, about his atrocious doings
with the village pool, as the Parish will not take it up, as it ought to do, as a matter
of right. He tells me old Price has heard of the general discontent against him, and is
very savage, and says everybody is trying to injure him, and he declared he would fill
up part of the pool, but Mr. W. thinks he has made some impression on him. The
Villas are certainly to be built. Really old Price is something like a rogue: there was
a disputed or doubtful boundary; and Sir John to oblige Mr.
Price sent Laslett to mark out and agree upon the boundary:
after the stakes were driven in, to mark the place where Mr. Price's new fence
was to be, they were privately moved, so as to bend into Sir John's field: this
Mr. Laslett told me himself, and said he was never so ashamed of having had anything to
do with such an affair. Sir John's Land-Agent found out that the line had been
altered, and ordered Mr. Price's labourers off Sir John's land, and I
believe the fence is to be pulled down. Poor injured Mr Price tells everybody he cannot
think who altered the fence, supposes the carpenters or Mr. Laslett must have done it!!
All hopes of a Railway, except one 7 miles off which will run to Hungerford
suspension Bridge (and so far, much better than Croydon) are over. With love to all.
C. D.
Will you ask my Father, whether he can recommend anything for old Martin (Mrs
Comfort's Father) a little thin, spare, active man of 75, apparently quite
temperate, well in every respect, except excruciating Rheumatism in his shoulders almost
every night. He has long so suffered.
