The Spectator accepts his old friend’s invitation and spends a month at Sir Roger de Coverley’s country house. These papers show the squire among his servants and tenants, Will Wimble the idle younger son, the family portrait gallery, a country Sunday in church, the hunt, the county assizes and the perverse widow who long ago broke Sir Roger’s heart.
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