to the butler.  There was a cook, not too proud to wash up her own dishes, and a couple of young women;—­while the house was kept by Mrs Carbury herself, who marked and gave out her own linen, made her own preserves, and looked to the curing of her own hams.  In the year 1800 the Carbury property was sufficient for the Carbury house.  Since that time the Carbury property has considerably increased in value, and the rents have been raised.  Even the acreage has been extended by the enclosure of commons.  But the income is no longer comfortably adequate to the wants of an English gentleman’s household.  If a moderate estate in land be left to a man now, there arises the question whether he is not damaged unless an income also be left to him wherewith...