[Nobody’s Man by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookNobody’s Man CHAPTER XI 4/13
Every one with a title is to be interned in an asylum, all country houses are to be turned into sanatoriums and all estates will be confiscated." "The tiresome man won't tell us anything," Lady Alice sighed. "Of course, he won't," Mrs.Ward Levitte observed.
"You can't announce a revolution beforehand truthfully." "If there is a revolution within the next fifteen years," Tallente said, "I think it will probably be on behalf of the disenfranchised aristocracy, who want the vote back again." Lady English and Mrs.Levitte found something else to talk about between themselves.
Lady Somerham, however, had no intention of letting Tallente escape. "You are a neighbour of my niece in Devonshire, I believe ?" she asked. He admitted the fact monosyllabically.
He was supremely uncomfortable, and it seemed to him that Jane, who was conducting an apparently entertaining conversation with Colonel Fosbrook, might have done something to rescue him. "My niece has very broad ideas," Lady Somerham went on.
"Some of her fellow landowners in Devonshire are very much annoyed with the way she has been getting rid of her property." "Lady Jane," he pronounced drily, "is in my opinion very wise.
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