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To begin with the head: Mr Murray was, by all accounts, a blustering, roystering, country squire: a devoted fox-hunter, a skilful horse-jockey and farrier, an active, practical farmer, and a hearty bon vivant By all accounts, I say; for, except on Sundays, when he went to church, I never saw hi in the grounds, the figure of a tall, stout gentleman, with scarlet cheeks and crimson nose, happened to coh to speak, an uncere, Miss Grey,' or some such brief salutation, was usually vouchsafed Frequently, indeed, his loud laugh reachedand blaspheroom, coachman, or some other hapless dependant

Mrs Murray was a handsoe nor padding to add to her chariving or frequenting parties, and in dressing at the very top of the fashion I did not see her till eleven o'clock on theafter my arrival; when she honoured ht step into the kitchen to see a new servant-girl: yet not so, either, for my mother would have seen her immediately after her arrival, and not waited till the next day; and, moreover, she would have addressed her in a iven her some words of comfort as well as a plain exposition of her duties; but Mrs Murray did neither the one nor the other She just stepped into the schoolroo dinner in the housekeeper's roo, stood for two minutes by the fire, said a feords about the weather and the 'rather rough' journey I est child--a boy of ten--who had just been wiping hisin some savoury ood boy he was; and then sailed out, with a self-co, no doubt, that she had done quite enough for the present, and had been delightfully condescending into the bargain Her children evidently held the saht otherwise

After this she looked in upon hten irls she seemed anxious only to render them as superficially attractive and showily accomplished as they could possibly be made, without present trouble or discoly--to study and strive to ae, instruct, refine, and polish, with the least possible exertion on their part, and no exercise of authority on ard to the two boys, it was et the greatest possible quantity of Latin grammar and Valpy's Delectus into their heads, in order to fit thereatest possible quantity at least WITHOUT trouble to theh- spirited,' and Charles ht be a little 'nervous and tedious--'