The sort of conversations which grew from such a commencement may be imagined.

Had Lady Arabella worried her lord less, he might perhaps have considered with more coolness the folly of encountering so prodigious an increase to the expense of his establishment; had he not spent so much money in a pursuit which his wife did not enjoy, she might perhaps have been more sparing in her rebukes as to his indifference to her London pleasures.

As it was, the hounds came to Greshamsbury, and Lady Arabella did go to London for some period in each year, and the family expenses were by no means lessened.
The kennels, however, were now again empty.

Two years previous to the time at which our story begins, the hounds had been carried off to the seat of some richer sportsman.

This was more felt by Mr Gresham than any other misfortune which he had yet incurred.