{"id":1163,"date":"2010-07-30T22:53:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T02:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2010-08-03T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T17:58:21","slug":"%e2%80%98an-habitation-enforced%e2%80%99-%e2%80%94-genealogy-manners-and-manors-a-georgian-fixer-upper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/1163","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An Habitation Enforced\u2019 \u2014 genealogy, manners, and a (Georgian fixer-upper) manor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found this story, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=v7YKAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA3\">An habitation enforced<\/a>,\u201d in an odd volume of Kipling in the East Washington barn.  <\/p>\n<p>A young Gilded-Age Baltimore businessman, convalescing after nervous exhaustion, lands with his Connecticut wife for a rest-holiday on a farm in the English countryside.  He regains his health as they fall in love with the place, eventually buying the decayed Georgian manor and farms, and adjusting to its slow rhythms.  Only once they\u2019ve bought the manor and are seated at the manorial pew in the parish church, do they notice a gravestone under the pew bears the wife\u2019s mother\u2019s maiden name, suggesting the coincidence of a blood connection.  The link, mentioned precisely once by the couple, is confirmed through quiet and efficient investigation by the local tenants, while the wife\u2019s only attempt to research the connection (a letter to a pompous DAR aunt in Meriden) comes to naught.  So the whole village knows about the connection before the newcomers do.<\/p>\n<p>The story is an &#8216;English origins tale&#8217; <i>par excellence<\/i>, a rose-tinted paean to <i>belonging<\/i>.  But what is important to the locals is not so much that the rich American newcomers turn out to have a blood tie to the manor, but that they <i>don\u2019t talk about it<\/i>.  For the English country way, as Kipling sees it, is that all that\u2019s important to know \u2014 including this remote but crucial aspect of belonging \u2014 should be known without telling or asking.  The old family\u2019s motto, <i>Wayte awhyle<\/i>, could teach patience to a genealogist as well to a parvenu landowner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found this story, \u201cAn habitation enforced,\u201d in an odd volume of Kipling in the East Washington barn. A young Gilded-Age Baltimore businessman, convalescing after nervous exhaustion, lands with his Connecticut wife for a rest-holiday on a farm in the English countryside. 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