She desired also that the copses should be full of pheasants, the stubble-field of partridges, and the gorse covers of foxes; in that way, also, she loved her country.

She had ardently longed, during that Crimean War, that the Russians might be beaten--but not by the French, to the exclusion of the English, as had seemed to her to be too much the case; and hardly by the English under the dictatorship of Lord Palmerston.

Indeed, she had had but little faith in that war after Lord Aberdeen had been expelled.

If, indeed, Lord Derby could have come in! But now as to this Chaldicotes set.

After all, there was nothing so very dangerous about them; for it was in London, not in the country, that Mr.Sowerby indulged, if he did indulge, his bachelor mal-practices.