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Updated: May 19, 2025
Any reader with an aptitude for family pedigrees will now understand that Reginald, Master of Hoppet Hall, was first cousin to the father of the Foreign Office paragon, and that he is therefore the paragon's first cousin once removed.
He is frequently to be seen at Hoppet Hall, calling there every Saturday to take down the attorney to the Dillsborough club, as was his habit of old; but it would perhaps be premature to say that there are very valid grounds for the hopes which Mrs. Masters already entertains in reference to Kate. Kate is still too young and childish to justify any prediction in that quarter.
It had none of the elaborate grandeur of the inn nor of the simple stateliness of Hoppet Hall, but, nevertheless, it maintained the character of the town and was old, substantial, respectable, and dark. "I think it a very spirited thing of him to do, then," said Mrs. Masters. "I don't know, my dear. Perhaps it is only revenge." "What have you to do with that?
That proud peacock from Hoppet Hall has been here, as though he had nothing to do but carry Mary away about the country just as he pleased. Mary won't go to Cheltenham with him nor yet without him; not if I am to remain here." "Where else should you remain, my dear?" asked the attorney. "I'd sooner go into the workhouse than have all this turmoil.
While fortune enabled me to be happy at Hoppet Hall " "That is unkind, Reg." "While fortune oppressed me with celibate misery at Hoppet Hall, nobody hated me for not hunting; and as I could not very well afford it, I was not considered to be entering a protest against the amusement.
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