ABSTRACT
About a mile from the village of M – was a seat belonging to Sir Walter Stanley, a rich Baronet,10 who generally spent two or three months of the year with his family at this his paternal seat, called Stanley Hall. e remaining part of the year was passed in London, at Bath, or some fashionable watering place; Lady Stanley being a very gay woman. She had been very beautiful; but time, and too great an attachment/ to the pleasures of a town life, had greatly impaired her attractions: yet it had not diminished her desire for them; she still pursued amusement with the same avidity as she did when rst emancipated from the controul of a rigid father, who had secluded her from the world in an old constellated mansion in Yorkshire.
