I was suddenly, upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a church standing on a sort of knoll to my right-which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or half a gentleman's house to be seen excepting one-to be presumed the Parsonage-within a stone's throw of the said knoll and church. 
I was suddenly in a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me, a church standing to my right-which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, where there was no gentleman's house to be seen excepting one-to be presumed the Parsonage-within a stone's throw of the church. 