21482,28 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY THE GIFT OF FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY July 13,1928 F. Shoberl, Jun., Printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert, Rupert Street. TEMPTATION AND ATONEMENT. A SUSSEX STORY. CHAPTER I. Peasants must weep, And kings endure; That is a fate that none can cure. Yet Spring doeth all she can, I trow : She weaveth sweet flowers, She dresseth her bowers, PROCTOR. Hartington is one of the pleasantest villages of the county of Sussex, where pleasant villages abound. No where is brighter verdure to be met with: no where a clearer or more rapid stream. The district, in a green nook of which it lies imbedded, is essentially rural. For ten miles round, nothing in the shape of a factory is in existence. No mechanic employs more than his single pair of hands, whether VOL. I. B |