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Excerpt from Standard Novels, Vol. 1 of 2: Canterbury Tales
Ar a county meeting of Warwickshire gentlemen in the month of August, a pmposal was made to shoot game in North \vales during the 'season next ensuing. Among those who joined to form the party, was Mr. Pembroke a gentleman by situation entitled to lead in any pursuit he adopted, but Without the least taste for the one in question, save that it was exercise. He had too'feeling a mind not to discover that the associated company, with the train of servants, dogs, and horses, must be an intolerable grievance to the rustics, who yet dared not complain. Game the party rarely could find but the riotous enjoyment of luxurious suppers, and a boundless indulgence of the bottle, made the major part of the company what is rather indefinitely ex pressed by the term jolly - a mode of felicity it had never been the fortune of Mr. Pembroke to partake - he often. Therefore, stole from his associates, to seek in the sequestered and wild scenes around him an indulgence more congenial to his taste, and to ponder on a. Strange though common calamity that empoisoned the lot so many of his neighbours were for ever tempted to envy.
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