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CHAPTER VII. THE CLUB He went into the library of his club, and took up Burke's Peerage. The words his uncle had said to him on hearing his engagement had been these: "Dennant! Are those the Holm Oaks Dennants? She was a Penguin." No one who knew Mr.Paramor connected him with snobbery, but there had been an "Ah! that 's right; this is due to us" tone about the saying. Shelton hunted for the name of Baltimore: "Charles Penguin, fifth Baron Baltimore.
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186-Algernon Dennant, Esq., of Holm Oaks, Cross Eaton, Oxfordshire." He put down the Peerage and took up the 'Landed Gentry': "Dennant, Algernon Cuffe, eldest son of the late Algernon Cuffe Dennant, Esq., J.P., and Irene, 2nd daur.
of the Honble. Philip and Lady Lillian March Mallow; ed.
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