Chapter 28 On Some Country Snobs

'Be hanged to your aristocrats!' Ponto said, in some conversation we had regarding the family at Carabas, between whom and the Evergreens there was a feud. 'When I first came into the county - it was the year before Sir John Buff contested in the Blue interest - the Marquis, then Lord St. Michaels, who, of course, was Orange to the core, paid me an