"Grey Fells Hall" was, I believe, the real name of the old house--the name by which it was described in the ancient deeds and documents, some of them _so_ ancient as to be perfectly illegible, of which more than one chestful still existed in the squire's safe, built into the wall of his business room. But "The Fells" it had been called from time immemorial, and would no doubt continue to be thus known. It was a cheerful, comfortable, and not unpicturesque old place, with nothing grim about it except the dark, rugged rocks at one side, from which it took its name, whose very grimness, however, but enhanced the calm beauty of the pleasant slope of pasture land to the south. On this side, too,…
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