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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



student for whom women's society offered no charm, 

 will not raise their eyebrows even when Mr. Hubert 

 Hall tells them in his delightful Society in the Elizabethan 

 Age (Sonnenschein & Co.), that Wild Darrell, far from 

 being the monster that rumour and I have made out, 

 was in point of fact a plain, courteous, much abused 

 lord of wide acres, which rapacious neighbours passed 



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Haunted Room, Littiecote. 



their lives in trying to take from him, and who was 

 compelled as a painful consequence to ruin himself in 

 Chancery law-suits. The William Darrell that Mr. Hall 

 draws for us is indeed almost too good to be true. He 

 bears an ominous resemblance to the " good young man 

 who died," and far from roasting live children at mid- 

 night and breaking his neck by furious riding, spends 



