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Huntingtower

CHAPTER VII
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"I don't mind spending a little money myself if the place suits me.

But of that, of course, I'm not yet certain, for I've only had a glimpse of the outside.

I wanted to get into the policies, but a man at the lodge wouldn't let me.
They're a mighty uncivil lot down there." "I'm very sorry to hear that," said Mr.Loudon in a tone of concern.
"Ay, and if I take the place I'll stipulate that you get rid of the lodgekeepers." "There won't be the slightest difficulty about that, for they are only weekly tenants.

But I'm vexed to hear they were uncivil.

I was glad to get any tenant that offered, and they were well recommended to me." "They're foreigners." "One of them is--a Belgian refugee that Lady Morewood took an interest in.


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