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Mrs Tebrick's maiden name was certainly Fox, and it is possible that such a ained their name as a soubriquet on that account They were an ancient faley Hall time out of mind It is also true that there was a half-taley Hall in the inner yard, and I have heard reat account--though they could not but admit that "there was never one there in Miss Silvia's time"

At first I was inclined to think that Silvia Fox, having once hunted when she was a child of ten and having been blooded, reat fright or disgust at it, and vomited after it was done But now I do not see that it has h we know that after that she always spoke of the "poor foxes" when a hunt was stirring and never rode to hounds till after her e when her husband persuaded her to it

She was married in the year 1879 to Mr Richard Tebrick, after a short courtship, and went to live after their honeymoon at Rylands, near Stokoe, Oxon One point indeed I have not been able to ascertain and that is how they first becaley Hall is over thirty miles from Stokoe, and is extremely remote Indeed to this day there is no proper road to it, which is all the more remarkable as it is the principal, and indeed the only, manor house for severalon the roads, or less ro acquainted with her uncle, ainvited by hiley Hall, it is impossible to say But however they becae was a very happy one The bride was in her twenty-third year She was small, with re that there was nothing at all foxy or vixenish in her appearance On the contrary, she was a reeable woman Her eyes were of a clear hazel but exceptionally brilliant, her hair dark, with a shade of red in it, her skin brownish, with a few dark freckles and little moles In manner she was reserved almost to shyness, but perfectly self-possessed, and perfectly well-bred

She had been strictly brought up by a woman of excellent principles and considerable attain to the circumstance that her mother had been dead ether rational for a little while before his death, they had few visitors but her uncle He often stopped with them a month or two at a stretch, particularly in winter, as he was fond of shooting snipe, which are plentiful in the valley there That she did not grow up a country hoyden is to be explained by the strictness of her governess and the influence of her uncle But perhaps living in so wild a place gave her soious upbringing Her old nurse said: "Miss Silvia was always a little wild at heart," though if this was true it was never seen by anyone else except her husband