""The place is quite a wilderness,"" said Squire Headlong: ""for, during the latter part of my father"s life, while I was finishing my education, he troubled himself about nothing but the cellar, and suffered everything else to go to rack and ruin. A mere wilderness, as you see, even now in December; but in summer a complete nursery of briers, a forest of thistles, a plantation of nettles, without any livestock but goats, that have eaten up all the bark of the trees. Here you see is the pedestal of a statue, with only half a leg and four toes remaining: there were many here once. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1891 года (издательство "London, J.M. Dent"). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Headlong Hall (Peacock Thomas Love)