text:  He never stayed later than day-dawn on the following morning and kept himself reserved as one used to the intimacy of the great and not liking to make his news patent to humble people such as we; and he would on no account open his mouth on the quarrels of our great lady and her son the new Marquis of Danfield but kept the conversation in equable channels of everyday matters and expounded how my glebe lands might be made to yield a greater store of provision by newer modes of cultivation--the which I considered however a tampering with Providence which gives to every field its increase and no more