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The Country House

CHAPTER V
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They're only just waiting till to-morrow morning, so that they can go out and kill something.

Even Bee's like that!" Mrs.Pendyce was not exaggerating.

The guests at Worsted Skeynes on the night of the Rutlandshire Handicap were nearly all county people, from the Hon.

Gertrude Winlow, revolving like a faintly coloured statue, to young Tharp, with his clean face and his fair bullety head, who danced as though he were riding at a bullfinch.

In a niche old Lord Quarryman, the Master of the Gaddesdon, could be discerned in conversation with Sir James Malden and the Reverend Hussell Barter.
Mrs.Pendyce said: "Your husband and Lord Quarryman are talking of poachers; I can tell that by the look of their hands.


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