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Exmoor." Then, her promising young sister, 

 Miss Beata Kinglake, Lady Lovelace, Mrs. 

 Henry Dene, Mrs. Pulsford Browne, of Kirk 

 Bramwith, near Doncaster — "a lady who lived 

 for many years at East Anstey, near Dulverton, 

 and hunted with Lord Portsmouth's and the 

 Staghounds — a very fine rider and one who 

 went as straight over a country as a bird on 

 wing. She ahvays called me 'Uncle John'; and 

 once or twice in a moor fog did me the 

 honour to accept my pilotage." 



Then there w^as Miss Clara Jekyll, Miss 

 Hole, now Mrs. Wynch, Mrs. John Luttrell, 

 Miss Leslie, the three Miss Taylors, of Dul- 

 verton, Miss Julia Carwithen, now Mrs. Pyne- 

 Coffin, Miss Luttrell, Miss Widborne, Mrs. 

 Louis and Mrs, Russell Riccard, Mrs. James 

 Turner, Miss Vibart, Lady Lindsay, Mrs. Proctor- 

 Baker, Miss Constance Baxendale, and Mrs. 

 Lock-Roe, an elegant horsewoman, and one of 

 Russell's dearest friends. Then, last in the 

 list, but rarely so in the chase, come Mrs. 

 Granville Somerset and her sister Mrs. Chol- 

 mondeley, two ladies whom Russell describes 

 "as worthy of niches in the grandest temple 

 ever dedicated to the Forest Queen." 



Of a fall that befell Mrs. Cholmondeley, 

 where the two streams meet above Badge- 

 worthy — once, as Mr. Blackmore tells us, the 

 stronghold of the Doones — Russell always spoke 



