Crossword-Solution: GRESHAMS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

How the Bride Was Received, and Who Were Asked to the Wedding CHAPTER I The Greshams of Greshamsbury Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

Such changes had taken place in England since the Greshams had founded themselves that no savage could any longer in any way protect them; they must protect themselves like common folk, or live unprotected.

Unfortunately it had been the pride of the Greshams that their acres had descended from one to another without an entail, so that each possessor of Greshamsbury had had the full power to dispose of the property as he pleased.

The arrangement having been made could not be broken, especially as the young lady in nowise made herself disagreeable; and more especially as the Miss Greshams themselves were very fond of her.

All the de Courcys were Christ Church men; but the Greshams, it seems, were always at Cambridge." "Would it not be better to send him abroad at once?" "Much better, I would think," said the Lady Arabella; "but you know, I never interfere: perhaps you would speak to Mr Gresham." The countess smiled grimly, and shook her head with a decidedly negative shake.