text:  Moreover if the truth must be owned Mary was not altogether free from the prejudices of her caste; and proud of her father's noble extraction was apt to pout her pretty lip on mention of "the people at Lexley Park;" for the General who had no secrets from his girls had foolishly permitted them to see certain letters addressed to him by the eccentric Sir Laurence Altham justifying himself concerning the peculiar clause introduced into his deeds of conveyance of his Hall estate on the grounds of the degraded origin of "the upstart" he was so malignantly intent on discomposing