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Updated: October 10, 2025
She seems particularly to have appreciated the people in Yorkshire, and her descriptions of them recall in no slight degree some of those of the sisters Bronté. Her principal seat was at Sandleford in Berkshire, where she spent large sums in improvements under the celebrated landscape-gardener "Capability Brown."
'You think Horace is happy at Sandleford, said Anne; 'I should hope he would be; Rupert always looks back to his days there with a great deal of pleasure.
'Was that the school where Horace is? said Harriet. 'Yes, said Katherine, 'Sandleford. 'How you must miss Horace! said Lucy. 'Poor little fellow, yes, that we do, said Katherine, 'but he was so riotous, he would pull all my things to pieces. Nobody could manage him but Lizzie, and she never minds what she has on.
'I saw that first-mentioned pupil of yours on Sunday, said Rupert. 'Oh! how pleased Mamma will be! cried Elizabeth; 'then you went to Sandleford? 'Yes; finding myself too late for the coach on Saturday afternoon, by which I had intended to go to Ely, said Rupert, 'I made up my mind to spend Sunday at Sandleford, and take a cursory view of the young gentleman, and of my old haunts.
Edward is a quiet meek boy, he has not his brother's high spirits, and I hope we shall keep him at home longer. 'Horace is certainly very young for a school-boy, said Lady Merton; 'Rupert was ten years old when he went to Sandleford, but Sir Edward afterwards regretted that he had not gone there earlier, and the little boys are very well taken care of there. 'Yes, Mr.
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