They have, it is true, an acceptable excuse for preferring riding to walking--the fashion of tying the dress back so tightly makes it extremely difficult for a lady to get over a country stile.

The rigours of winter only enable them to appear even yet more charming in furs and sealskin.

In all this the Grange people have not laid themselves open to any reproach as to the extravagance or pretension of their doings.

With them it is genuine, real, unaffected: in brief, they have money, and have a right to what it can purchase.
Mr .-- -- is not a tenant farmer from necessity; personally he is not a farmer at all, and knows no more of shorthorns than the veriest 'City' man.

He has a certain taste for country life, and this is his way of enjoying it--and a very acute way, too, when you come to analyse it.