Till the crops were off the ground there was no sporting, except an occasional cock-match at Winchester, and a bull-baiting at Hexton Fair.

Harry and Will rode off to many jolly fairs and races round about the young Virginian was presented to some of the county families--the Henleys of the Grange, the Crawleys of Queen's Crawley, the Redmaynes of Lionsden, and so forth.

The neighbours came in their great heavy coaches, and passed two or three days in country fashion.

More of them would have come, but for the fear all the Castlewood family had of offending Madame de Bernstein.

She did not like country company; the rustical society and conversation annoyed her.