But they died, and were gathered to their fathers, and young Mr.and Mrs.Buxton (aged respectively fifty-one and forty-five) reigned in their stead.

They had the good taste to make no sudden change; but gradually the rooms assumed an inhabited appearance, and their son and daughter grew up in the enjoyment of great wealth, and no small degree of refinement.

But as yet they held back modestly from putting themselves in any way on a level with the county people.

Lawrence Buxton was sent to the same school as his father had been before him; and the notion of his going to college to complete his education was, after some deliberation, negatived.

In process of time he succeeded his father, and married a sweet, gentle lady, of a decayed and very poor county family, by whom he had one boy before she fell into delicate health.