There was an income from what had previously been profitless.
Under this shrewd management the estate was fast recovering.
At the same time the whole parish groaned in spirit.

The farmers grumbled at the moral pressure which forced them to progress in spite of themselves.

They grumbled at the strange people who took up their residence in their midst and suddenly claimed all the loyalty which was the due of the old family.

These people hunted over their fields, jumped over the hedges, glanced at them superciliously, and seemed astonished if every hat was not raised when they came in sight.

The farmers felt that they were regarded as ignorant barbarians, and resented the town-bred insolence of people who aped the country gentleman.
They grumbled about the over-preservation of game, and they grumbled about the rabbits.