Seventy-two gallons--a good-sized tankful--of water in a second is very pretty swallowing; an early instance of thinking imperially. To Camden, in the _Britannia_, the disappearing water suggests another image. The inhabitants can boast, like the Spaniards, of having a bridge that feeds several flocks of sheep. Mickleham is almost the centre of the Fanny Burney country. At Mickleham church she was married to General d'Arblay; Juniper Hall is half-a-mile from the church; Norbury Park lies west of the Mole; Camilla Lacey south of Norbury Park at West Humble. Fanny Burney, retired from her post of Maid of Honour and receiving a pension of L100 a year, met M. d'Arblay in January, 1793, when she was staying with her friends the Locks at Norbury Park. He was living at Juniper Hall with other French _emigres_--a brilliant little colony; Madame de Stael was there, and de Narbonne, and de Lally Tollendal, and Talleyrand. The General began as tutor, and the course of Fanny Burney's acquaintance with Juniperians, as her sister Mrs. Phillips used to call them, and particularly with her French master, perhaps may be given in a few extracts from her correspondence:-- MADAME DE STAEL HOLSTEIN TO MISS BURNEY, _Written from_ JUNIPER HALL, DORKING, SURREY, 1793. "When J learned to read english J begun by milton, to know all or renounce all in once. J follow the same system in writing my first english letter to Miss burney; after such an enterprize nothing can affright me. J feel for her so tender a friendship that it melts my admiration, inspires my heart with hope of her indulgence, and impresses me with the idea that in a tongue even unknown J could express sentiments so deeply felt. "My servant will return for a french answer. J intreat miss burney to correct the words but to preserve the sense of that card. "Best compliments to my dear protectress, Madame Phillipe." MISS BURNEY TO DR. BURNEY (her father). "MICKLEHAM, _February 29, 1793_. "There can be nothing imagined more charming, more fascinating than this colony; between their sufferings and their _agremens_ they occupy us almost wholly. M. de Narbonne, alas, has no L1000 a year! he got over only L4000 at the beginning, from a most splendid fortune; and, little foreseeing how all has turned out, he has lived, we fear, upon the principal....