'Didn't he make a friend, or almost a friend of Jack Howell, the huntsman, and of Ford, the wrestler.

I have no confidence in Maulevrier's ideas of fitness.' 'We shall find out all about this Mr.Hamleigh--no Hammond--in a day or two,' replied her ladyship, placidly; 'and in the meantime we must tolerate him, and be grateful to him if he reconcile Maulevrier to remaining at Fellside for the next six weeks.' Lesbia was silent.

She did not consider Maulevrier's presence at Fellside an unmitigated advantage, or, indeed, his presence anywhere.
Those two were not sympathetic.

Maulevrier made fun of his elder sister's perfections, chaffed her intolerably about the great man she was going to captivate, in her first season, the great houses in which she was going to reign.

Lesbia despised him for that neglect of all his opportunities of culture which had left him, after the most orthodox and costly curriculum, almost as ignorant as a ploughboy.