Mr.Champernowne, the owner, was an intimate friend of the Archdeacon, to whom he left the guardianship of his children, so that the Froudes were as much at home in their squire's house as in the parsonage itself.

Although most of his brothers and sisters were too old to be his companions, the group in which his first years were passed was an unusually spirited and vivacious one.
Newman, who was one of Hurrell's visitors from Oxford, has described the young girls "blooming and in high spirits," full of gaiety and charm.* -- * Newman's Letters and Correspondence, ii.

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-- The Froudes were a remarkable family.

They had strong characters and decided tastes, but they had not their father's conventionality and preference for the high roads of life.

They were devoted to sport, and at the same time abounded in mental vigour.