Suffolk is not especially a picturesque county, nor can it be said that the scenery round Carbury was either grand or beautiful; but there were little prettinesses attached to the house itself and the grounds around it which gave it a charm of its own.  The Carbury River,—­ so called, though at no place is it so wide but that an active schoolboy might jump across it,—­runs, or rather creeps into the Waveney, and in its course is robbed by a moat which surrounds Carbury Manor House.  The moat has been rather a trouble to the proprietors, and especially so to Roger, as in these days of sanitary considerations it has been felt necessary either to keep it clean with at any rate moving water in it, or else to fill it up and abolish it altogether.  That plan of...