The next Brandon had been a fox-hunter, and fox-hunters live as largely as patriotic politicians.
Pausanias tells us that the same people; who were the most notorious for their love of wine were also the most notorious for their negligence of affairs.

Times are not much altered since Pausanias wrote, and the remark holds as good with the English as it did with the Phigalei.

After this Brandon came one who, though he did not scorn the sportsman, rather assumed the fine gentleman.

He married an heiress, who of course assisted to ruin him; wishing no assistance in so pleasing an occupation, he overturned her (perhaps not on purpose), in a new sort of carriage which he was learning to drive, and the good lady was killed on the spot.

She left the fine gentleman two sons,--Joseph Brandon, the present thane,--and a brother some years younger.