And so they're going to cut down Chaldicotes Forest, are they, Mr.Sowerby ?" "Well, I can't tell you that.

They are going to disforest it.

I have been ranger since I was twenty-two, and I don't yet know whether that means cutting down." "Not only cutting down, but rooting up," said Mr.Fothergill.
"It's a murderous shame," said Frank Gresham; "and I will say one thing, I don't think any but a Whig government would do it." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed his grace.

"At any rate, I'm sure of this," he said, "that if a Conservative government did do so, the Whigs would be just as indignant as you are now." "I'll tell you what you ought to do, Mr.Gresham," said Sowerby: "put in an offer for the whole of the West Barsetshire Crown property; they will be very glad to sell it." "And we should be delighted to welcome you on this side of the border," said the duke.

Young Gresham did feel rather flattered.
There were not many men in the county to whom such an offer could be made without an absurdity.