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An excerpt from English Eccentrics by Edith Sitwell Publication date 1994 Source: https://archive.org/details/englisheccentric0000edit_r1x9/page/25/mode/1up > . . . advertised for a hermit, he built a retreat for this ornamental but retiring person on a steep mound in his estate. This hermitage annoyed Mr Horace Walpole, who announced that it was ridiculous to set aside a quarter of one's garden to be melancholy in: and, indeed, the retreat seems to have been re- markable more for its discomfort than for its beauty, for we learn that there was 'an upper apartment, supported in part by con- torted legs and roots of trees, which formed the entrance to the cell'. Still. Mr Hamilton seems to have found no difficulty in pro- curing the hermit; and in any case, a professional discomfort was only to be expected by the hermit, who, according to the terms of the agreement, must 'continue in the hermitage seven years, where he should be provided with a Bible, optical glasses, a mat for his feet, a hassock for his pillow, an hour-glass for his timepiece, water for his beverage, and food from the house. He must wear a camlet robe, and never, under any circumstances, must he cut his hair, beard, or nails, stray beyond the limits of Mr Hamilton's grounds, or exchange one word with the servant.' If he remained without breaking one of these conditions, in the grounds of Mr Hamilton for seven years, he was to receive, as a proof of Mr Hamilton's
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An excerpt from English Eccentrics by Edith Sitwell Publication date 1994 Source: https://archive.org/details/englisheccentric0000edit_r1x9/page/25/mode/1up > . . . advertised for a hermit, he built a retreat for this ornamental but retiring person on a steep mound in his estate. This hermitage annoyed Mr Horace Walpole, who announced that it was ridiculous to set aside a quarter of one's garden to be melancholy in: and, indeed, the retreat seems to have been re- markable more for its discomfort than for its beauty, for we learn that there was 'an upper apartment, supported in part by con- torted legs and roots of trees, which formed the entrance to the cell'. Still. Mr Hamilton seems to have found no difficulty in pro- curing the hermit; and in any case, a professional discomfort was only to be expected by the hermit, who, according to the terms of the agreement, must 'continue in the hermitage seven years, where he should be provided with a Bible, optical glasses, a mat for his feet, a hassock for his pillow, an hour-glass for his timepiece, water for his beverage, and food from the house. He must wear a camlet robe, and never, under any circumstances, must he cut his hair, beard, or nails, stray beyond the limits of Mr Hamilton's grounds, or exchange one word with the servant.' If he remained without breaking one of these conditions, in the grounds of Mr Hamilton for seven years, he was to receive, as a proof of Mr Hamilton's
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