In the year 1800 the Carbury property was sufficient for the Carbury house. Since that tirne the Carbury property has considerahly increased in value, and the rents have been raised. Even the acreage has been extended by the enclosure of commons. But the income is no longer comfortably adequate to the wants of an English gentleman's household. If a moderate estate in land be left to a man now, there arises the question whether he is not damaged unless an income also be Icrt to him wherewith to keep up the estate.
Land is a luuxury, and of all luxuries is the most costly.
Now the Carburys had never had anything but land. Suffolk has not been rnade rich and great either by coal or iron. No great town had sprung up on the confines of the Carbury property. No eldest son had gone into trade or risen high in a profession so as to add to the Carhury wealth. No great heiress had been married.