A wide flat field is "finer” than rugged terrain for it can be tilled easily to produce wheat and so represents good white bread. A small thatched cottage, which a modern viewer might consider pretty, will be considered unattractive by an Elizabethan traveler, for cottagers are generally poor
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As you know, our library needs new books.
<span>Mr.Nuttel is staying in the country in order to take a "rest cure." He is suffering from a nervous disorder and, as he tells Mrs. Sappleton, "The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in that can exhaust him.</span>
