He had been master of hounds for ten years, and that work he had at any rate done well.

The popularity among his neighbours which he had lost as a politician he had regained as a sportsman, and he would fain have remained autocratic in the hunt, had it been possible.

But he so remained much longer than he should have done, and at last they went away, not without signs and sounds of visible joy on the part of Lady Arabella.
But we have kept the Greshamsbury tenantry waiting under the oak-trees by far too long.

Yes; when young Frank came of age there was still enough left at Greshamsbury, still means enough at the squire's disposal, to light one bonfire, to roast, whole in its skin, one bullock.

Frank's virility came on him not quite unmarked, as that of the parson's son might do, or the son of the neighbouring attorney.