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They , also , were of the opinion that Munn 's object was to squeeze the club by threats . The second week in June , Peyster Sprowl , Master of Fox-hounds , Shadowbrook , appeared with his wife , the celebrated beauty , Agatha Sprowl , _ née _ Van Guilder . Sprowl , now immensely large and fat , had few cares in life beyond an anxious apprehension concerning the durability of his own digestion . However , he was still able to make a midnight mouthful of a Welsh rarebit on a hot mince-pie , and wash it down with a quart of champagne , and so the world went very well with him , even if it wabbled a trifle for his handsome wife . `` She 's lovely enough , '' said Colonel Hyssop , gallantly , `` to set every star in heaven wabbling . '' To which the bull-necked Major assented with an ever-hopeless attempt to bend at the waistband . Meanwhile the Rev. Amasa Munn and his flock , the Shining Band , arrived at Foxville in six farm wagons , singing `` Roll , Jordan ! ''