It would be too ridiculous for me to attempt anything where I am now, with my little half acre.

It would be quite a burlesque.

But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight in improving and planting.

We did a vast deal in that way at the Parsonage: we made it quite a different place from what it was when we first had it.

You young ones do not remember much about it, perhaps; but if dear Sir Thomas were here, he could tell you what improvements we made: and a great deal more would have been done, but for poor Mr.Norris's sad state of health.
He could hardly ever get out, poor man, to enjoy anything, and _that_ disheartened me from doing several things that Sir Thomas and I used to talk of.