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The Newcomes

CHAPTER X
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He drove tandems, kept hunters, gave dinners, scandalised the Dean, screwed up the tutor's door, and agonised his mother at home by his lawless proceedings.

He quitted the University after a very brief sojourn at that seat of learning.

It may be the Oxford authorities requested his lordship to retire; let bygones be bygones.

His youthful son, the present Lord Walham, is now at Christchurch, reading with the greatest assiduity.

Let us not be too particular in narrating his father's unedifying frolics of a quarter of a century ago.
Old Lady Kew, who, in conjunction with Mrs.Newcome, had made the marriage between Mr.Brian Newcome and her daughter, always despised her son-in-law; and being a frank, open person, uttering her mind always, took little pains to conceal her opinion regarding him or any other individual.


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