There were many institutions of his country which Mr.
Caldigate hated with almost an inhuman hatred; but there were none more odious to him than that of entails, which institution he was wont to prove by many arguments to be the source of all the ignorance and all the poverty and all the troubles by which his country was inflicted.

He had got his own property by an entail, and certainly never would have had an acre had his father been able to consume more than a life-interest.

But he had denied that the property had done him any good, and was loud in declaring that the entail had done the property and those who lived on it very much harm.

In his hearts of hearts he did feel a desire that when he was gone the acres should still belong to a Caldigate.

There was so much in him of the leaven of the old English squirarchic aristocracy as to create a pride in the fact that the Caldigates had been at Folking for three hundred years, and a wish that they might remain there; and no doubt he knew that without repeated entails they would not have remained there.