text:  And one invited him to spend the Christmas with him down at the governor's in Kent where there was to be a regular houseful and merry-making of all sorts and another would have him into Norfolk in September for the shooting--(the dean never shot but wisely said nothing about it until he got into good quarters when he left his younger friends to beat the stubbles while he walked or drove with Lady Mary and Lady Emily and eat the partridges;)--so that on the whole he felt himself rather an ill-used individual if there was a week of the vacation for which he had not an invite