The Life of a Great Sportsman 



then belonging to Mr. Pochin of Leicester, was decided upon 

 as the new home. 



This world-famous Elizabethan house, comfortably 

 modernized internally, without being spoiled externally, was 

 a fitting setting and harmonized well with the lives of my 

 brother and his wife, which it was destined for so many years 

 to brighten. 



It had been a very sad epoch in Maunsell's life, to break up 

 his Lincolnshire home, and leave the county in which he had 

 hunted almost before he could remember, nor was it less sad 

 for his wife, for, first as Lady Worsley, and later as the reigning 

 Countess of Yarborough, she had created a fine example of 

 feminine prowess in the hunting field, going straight, riding 

 unselfishly, never making herself a nuisance. Naturally, after 

 her marriage to my brother he became her pilot across country, 

 and hard rider as he was, no fence negotiated by him, unless 

 he put up his hand to stop her, which happened seldom, was 

 ever considered unjumpable by his plucky wife. 



It was therefore no little compensation to be received with 

 such delight in their new sporting quarters. 



With the Rector of the picturesque village of Edmond- 

 thorpe, the Rev. Lindsay Knox, brother of the Bishop of 

 Manchester, and his three sisters, they were soon on the 

 friendliest terms, making church life pleasant and interesting, 

 and as was the case at every place in which they had 

 lived, so here the villagers speedily recognized that the new 

 tenants of the Hall were friendly, generous, and, above all, 

 companionable. 



Amongst the many good friends my brother and Lady 

 Yarborough made, cementing also some old friendships, during 

 their Edmondthorpe sojourn, it may seem invidious to mention 

 names, but from what I could judge myself on my visits to 



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