_Gryll Grange_, the last and mellowest fruit from Peacock's tree, was, like most mellow fruit, not matured hastily. In saying this I do not refer to the long period--exactly a generation in the conventional sense--which intervened between _Crotchet Castle_ of 1831 and this of 1861. For we know as a matter of fact, from the preface to the 1856 edition of _Melincourt_, that Peacock was planning _Gryll Grange_ at a time considerably nearer to, but still some years from, its actual publication. There might perhaps have been room for fear lest such a proceeding, on the part of a man of seventy-five who was living in retirement, should result in an ill-digested mass of detail, tempered or rather …
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