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The Admirable Tinker

CHAPTER ONE
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That's what I fancy.

At any rate she's more of a Beauleigh than any Beauleigh since the flood." "I know," said Lord Crosland, and he nodded gravely with the immeasurable sapience of a boy of twenty-one.
"I must say, too," Sir Tancred went on thoughtfully, "that she's been the most important Beauleigh for generations.

She brought thirty thousand a year to the restoration of our dilapidated fortunes; and she did restore them.

You know what a County is: well, little by little she got a grip on the County, and now she just runs it.

I tell you, the County has taken to spending every bit of the year it can in town or abroad; when it gets within thirty miles of her, it daren't call its life its own." "By Jove!" said Lord Crosland earnestly.


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