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My Lady Ludlow

CHAPTER XII
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But his executors,--connections on the Ludlow side,--demurred to this.

If he were removed to England, he must be carried on to Scotland, and interred with his Monkshaven forefathers.

My lady, deeply hurt, withdrew from the discussion, before it degenerated to an unseemly contest.

But all the more, for this understood mortification of my lady's, did the whole village and estate of Hanbury assume every outward sign of mourning.

The church bells tolled morning and evening.
The church itself was draped in black inside.


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