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HAMPSHIRE DAYS 



village its appearance is of a small inland lake, grown 

 round with oaks old trees that stretch their horizontal 

 branches far out and wet their lower leaves in the salt 

 water. The village itself that has this setting, with its 

 ancient water-mill, its palace of the Montagus, and the 

 Abbey of Beaulieu, a grey ivied ruin, has a distinction 



BEAULIEU MILL 



above all Hampshire villages, and is unlike all others 

 in its austere beauty and atmosphere of old-world 

 seclusion and quietude. Above all, is that quality 

 which the mind imparts the expression due to 

 romantic historical associations. 



One very still, warm summer afternoon I stood on 

 the margin, looking across the sheet of glassy water at 



