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@1CHAPTER I^
@2Mr Mavasor and His Daughter@1^
Whether or no, she, whom you are to forgive, if you can, did or did not belong
to the Upper Ten Thousand of this our English world, I am not prepared to say
with any strength of affirmation. By blood she was connected with big
people---distantly connected with some very big people indeed, people who
belonged to the Upper Ten Hundred if there be any such division; but of these
very big relations she had known and seen little, and they had cared as
little for her. Her grandfather, Squire Vavasor of Vavasor Hall, in
Westmoreland, was a country gentleman, possessing some thousand a year at the
outside, and he therefore never came up to London, and had no ambition to have
himself numbered as one in any exclusive set. A hot-headed, ignorant, honest
old gentleman, he lived ever at Vavasor Hall, declaring, to any who would
listen to him, that the country was going to the mischief, and congratulating
himself that at any rate, in his county, parliame . . .
