And then the gardens and paddocks were exactly suited to it;
and everything was in good order;--not exactly new, so as to be raw
and uncovered, and redolent of workmen; but just at that era of their
existence in which newness gives way to comfortable homeliness.
Other village at Framley there was none. At the back of the Court, up
one of those cross-roads, there was another small shop or two, and
there was a very neat cottage residence, in which lived the widow
of a former curate, another protege of Lady Lufton's; and there was
a big, staring, brick house, in which the present curate lived;
but this was a full mile distant from the church, and farther from
Framley Court, standing on that cross-road which runs from Framley
Cross in a direction away from the mansion. This gentleman, the
Rev. Evan Jones, might, from his age, have been the vicar's father;
but he had been for many years curate of Framley; and though he
was personally disliked by Lady Lufton, as being Low Church in his
principles, and unsightly in his appearance, nevertheless, she would
not urge his removal He had two or three pupils in that large brick
house, and, if turned out from these and from his curacy, might find
it difficult to establish himself elsewhere. On this account mercy
was extended to the Rev.
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