A few cottages were scattered again beyond the gamekeeper's, and one or two on this side it; but we have nothing to do with them at present.
A great part of the ill-feeling rife on the estate was connected with these brick-fields.

It had been a great mistake on Mr.Verner's part ever to put Roy into power; had Mr.Verner been in the habit of going out of doors himself, he would have seen this, and not kept the man on a week.

The former bailiff had died suddenly.

He, the bailiff, had given some little power to Roy during his lifetime; had taken him on as a sort of inferior helper; and Mr.Verner, put to shifts by the bailiffs death, had allowed Roy so to continue.

Bit by bit, step by step, gradually, covertly, the man made good his footing: no other was put over his head, and in time he came to be called Roy the bailiff, without having ever been formally appointed as bailiff.