Towards the close of the eighteenth century, an opportune loan again set the doors of the House of Lords open to the Sandals; but the head of the family was even less inclined to enter it than his grandfather had been.
"Nay, then," was his answer, "t' Sandals are too old a family to hide their heads in a coronet.

Happen, I am a bit opinion-tied, but it's over late to loosen knots made centuries ago; and I don't want to loosen them, neither." So it will be perceived, that, though the Sandals moved, they moved slowly.

A little change went a great way with them.

The men were all conservative in politics, the women intensely so in all domestic traditions.

They made their own sweet waters and unguents and pomades, long after the nearest chemist supplied a far better and cheaper article.