The Lover Author:Walter Lewin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. Sir Roger de Coverleys Household. (Spectator, No. 106.) HAVING often received an Invitation from my Friend Sir Roger De Coverley to ... more »pass away a Month with him in the Country, I last Week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his Country-house, where I intend to form several of my ensuing Speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my Humour, lets me rise and go to Bed when I please, dine at his own Table or in my Chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the Gentlemen of the Country come to see him, he only shews me at a Distance: As I have been walking in his Fields I have observed them stealing a Sight of me over an Hedge, and have heard the Knight desiring them not to let me see them, for that I hated to be stared at. I am the more at Ease in Sir Roger's Family, because it consists of sober and staid Persons ; for as the Knight is the best Master in the World, he seldom changes his Servants ; and as he is beloved by all about him, his Servants never care for leaving him ; by this means his Domesticks are all in Years, and grown old with their Master. You would take his Valet de Chambre for his Brother, his Butler is grey-headed, his Groom is one of the gravest Men that I have ever seen, and his Coachman has the Looks of a Privy-Counsellor. You see the Goodness of the Master even in the old House-dog, and in a grey Pad that is kept in the Stable with great Care and Tenderness out of Regard to his past Services, tho' he has been useless for several Years. I could not but observe with a great deal of Pleasure the Joy that appeared in the Countenances of these ancient Domesticksupon my Friend's Arrival at his Country-Seat. Some of them could not refrain from Tears ...« less