He aped gentility, lived in a palace at Kensington, and bought a part of Scotland to make a deer forest of.

It is easy enough to make a deer forest, as trees are not necessary there.

You simply drive off the peasants, destroy their houses, and make a desert of the land.
However, my father did not shoot much himself; he generally let the forest out by the season to those who did.

He purchased a wife of gentle blood too, with the unsatisfactory result now before you.

That is how Jesse Trefusis, a poor Manchester bagman, contrived to be come a plutocrat and gentleman of landed estate.