Here for the greater part of the current century the owner lived, making the development of the estate and of this demesne his constant care and chief pleasure.

And here still lives his widow, with whom we took tea in a stately quiet drawing-room.

Lady Louisa Tighe was in Brussels with her mother, the Duchess of Richmond, on the eve of Waterloo.

She was a child then of ten years old, and her mother bade them bring her down into the historic ball-room before the Duke of Wellington left it.

The duke took up his sword.