[At Love’s Cost by Charles Garvice]@TWC D-Link bookAt Love’s Cost CHAPTER IV 8/22
Why are you so angry? I know you don't like to have new houses built in Bryndermere; but this is some distance from us--we cannot see it from here, or from any part of the grounds, excepting the piece by the lake." "It is built on our land," he said, more quietly, but with the flush still on his face, the angry light in his eyes.
"It was bought by fraud, obtained under false pretences.
I sold it to one of the farmers, thinking he wanted it and would only use it for grazing.
I did not know until the deeds were signed that he was only the jackal for this other man." "What other man, father ?" "This Stephen Orme.
He's _Sir_ Stephen Orme now.
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