[The Late Miss Hollingford by Rosa Mulholland]@TWC D-Link bookThe Late Miss Hollingford CHAPTER I 17/21
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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