UNDER ONE ROOF. CHAPTER I. THE TWO MASTERS. IN Mother England, teeming with progeny as she is, and knowing, alas! often times no more what to do with them than the old woman who lived in her shoe, the population is nevertheless partial. She has probably more sheltered nooks, far from the madding crowd, and known only to neighbours, than any other civilised country; lone spots, visited indeed by man, but occupied only by one or two families in half a score of generations; haunts of ancient Peace,' where the echoes only of wars and tumults have penetrated, and those yielding VOL. I. B |