text:  But the youngest daughter Kezia a girl of high spirits and intelligence who fancied she had been pointedly slighted by the Misses Stanley when in one of Mary's harum-scarum expeditions on her Shetland pony she had passed without recognition the better-mounted young lady of Lexley Park; and the eldest son who so positively refused to accompany his father to the house of a man by whom Mr Sparks had inconsiderately represented himself as aggrieved that for once the kind parent was forced to play the tyrant and insist on his obedience