text:  It seemed so appropriate that the lesser squire--the _great_ squire's friend--should also have _his_ "hall " though a little one! Indeed it had been in incipient repair for him that the old men might spend their winter evenings together at the real hall divided but by a short path across an angle of the park without a dreary walk for Bevan impending over the end of their carouse with never-wearied reminiscences of their boyhood--when sudden death stopped all proceedings and left poor Bevan alone in the world as it seemed to him--"in simplicity a child " and as imbecile in conflict with it as any child