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The Belton Estate

CHAPTER III
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People do when they take a little shooting.

They pay some trumpery thirty or forty pounds a year, and then they seem to think that it's almost the same as though they owned the property themselves.

I've known a man talk of his manor because he had the shooting of a wood and a small farm round it.

They are generally shopkeepers out of London, gin distillers, or brewers, or people like that." "Why, Mr.Belton, I didn't think you could be so furious!" "Can't I?
When my back's up, it is up! But it isn't up yet." "And I hope it won't be up while you remain in Somersetshire." "I won't answer for that.

There's Stovey's empty cart standing just where it stood yesterday; and he promised he'd have it home before three to-day.


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