old ways Quotes

“Things are changing. The Laws are changing. The old ways may never be the right ways again.”

“Hobberdy Dick (a hobgoblin of a sort and a protector of the manor itself), the story gives us, at one point, a sweeping dale-sized overview of rural Oxfordshire at a time when a breach between the old ways and the new, Puritan ways were eschewing knowledge in its different forms.”