. Devonshire characters and strange events. long dog, my lord,and ef yeu will just shak yeur appern to un, hell golike a dart. The Weekly Times of Exeter kept an eye on Froudesdoings and misdoings, and published them under theheading of Knowstone Again. But Froude was toosly to enable the Bishop to find an occasion to proceedagainst him ; the people of Knowstone were too muchafraid of his vengeance to dare to give evidence. Froude married a Miss Halse, the pretty sister of twowell-known yeomen of Anstey. She was quite youngenough to have been his daughter, and they had nochildren—perhaps fortu
. Devonshire characters and strange events. long dog, my lord,and ef yeu will just shak yeur appern to un, hell golike a dart. The Weekly Times of Exeter kept an eye on Froudesdoings and misdoings, and published them under theheading of Knowstone Again. But Froude was toosly to enable the Bishop to find an occasion to proceedagainst him ; the people of Knowstone were too muchafraid of his vengeance to dare to give evidence. Froude married a Miss Halse, the pretty sister of twowell-known yeomen of Anstey. She was quite youngenough to have been his daughter, and they had nochildren—perhaps fortunately. The circumstances ofthe marriage are said to have been these. Froude hadpaid Miss Halse some of his insolent attentions, thatmeant, if they meant anything, a certain contemptuousadmiration. The brothers were angry. They invitedhim to their house, made him drunk, and when drunksign a paper promising to marry their sister beforethree months were up or to forfeit ;^2o,ooo. They tookcare to have this dogument well attested, and next. [E REA. JOHN RUSSELL S IOKT-WINE CLASS, CMAMBERLAIN WORCESllBREAKFAST SERVICE AND BAROMETERPurchased at t/ie sale of his cffccts in 1883 by Mrs. Arnull andp7e^citici^ by her toJ\[r. John Lane, in 7v/iosc /ossvssio?! iluy lunv urc TWO HUNTING PARSONS 559 morning presented it to Mr. Froude, who had for-gotten all about it. He was very angry, blustered,cajoled, tried to laugh it off—all to no purpose. Hewas constrained to marry her. And he seems to havebeen really fond of her. Certain it is that she waswarmly attached to him, and after his death wouldspeak of him as her dear departed saint, whichimplies a singular misappropriation of terms, and con-fusion of ideas. The following story is on the authority of JackRussell. He had called one day at KnowstoneParsonage, and found Froude sitting over his firesmoking and Mrs. Froude sitting in the corner of theroom against the wall. Her husband had his backtowards her. Russell was uneasy, and asked if
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