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The Inheritors

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
17/39

We were sitting on garden seats in the dappled shade of enormous elms.
There was in the air a touch of the sounds discoursed by a yeomanry band at the other end of the grounds.

One could see the red of their uniforms through moving rifts in the crowd of white dresses.
"That wasn't even the worst," she said suddenly, lifting her eyes and looking away between the trunks of the trees.

"The man has been reading the papers and he gave me the benefit of his reflections.

'Someone's got to be punished for this;' he said, 'we've got to show them that you can't be hand-and-glove with that sort of blackguard, without paying for it.

I don't say, mind you, that Mr.Churchill is or ever has been.


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