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[Colson N. <int...@se...>]

Ionable world, had taken little pains to improve the condition of their
tenants; the few attempts they had made
were injudicious. They had built ornamented, picturesque cottages,
within view of their
demesne; and favourite followers of the family, people with half a
century's habit of indolence
and dirt, were PROMOTED to these fine dwellings.

The consequences were such as Lady Dashfort delighted to point out;
everything let to
go to ruin for the want of a moment's care, or pulled to pieces for the
sake of the
most trifling surreptitious profit; the people most assisted always
appearing proportionally wretched and discontented. No one could, with
more ease and more knowledge of her ground, than Lady Dashfort, do the
DISHONOUR of a country. In every cabin that she entered, by the first

glance of
her eye at the head, kerchiefed in no comely guise, or by the drawn-down
corners of the mouth