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The Late Miss Hollingford

CHAPTER I
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Hollingford is the name of these people.

The father was a banker, the bank smashed, and he ran away with large sums of money." I thought--nay, I was quite sure--that Miss Leonard started at the mention of the word Hollingford; and I also thought that she turned deathly pale; but she bent over her flowers at the moment, and the light was very subdued.

No one else seemed to notice it, so it is just possible I may have been mistaken.
"Mr.Hill's new agent is, then, the son of Mr.Hollingford, the banker ?" said Miss Leonard, after a pause.

"I did not know that they belonged to that part of the country." "Oh! I do not know about that; but the mother and son have taken a farm there lately, trying to make shift for themselves, poor things! They say young Hollingford has some Quixotic ideas about paying some of his father's liabilities; and if he has, I am sure it is very creditable to him.

But I for one am inclined to doubt it.


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