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... Lowe , with his father the Colonel , generally contriving to have all they wished to have , though by no means wealthy people ; indeed , being the most out - at - elbows of all the Milltown gentry . But the more nearly in- solvent a ...
... Lowe , with his father the Colonel , generally contriving to have all they wished to have , though by no means wealthy people ; indeed , being the most out - at - elbows of all the Milltown gentry . But the more nearly in- solvent a ...
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... Lowe was of this kind to Milltown . No one knew exactly what he had done that was more disgraceful than the ordinary silly scrapes of youth ; and it may be presumed that he had neither robbed a church nor committed a murder . He was the ...
... Lowe was of this kind to Milltown . No one knew exactly what he had done that was more disgraceful than the ordinary silly scrapes of youth ; and it may be presumed that he had neither robbed a church nor committed a murder . He was the ...
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Eliza Lynn. the son of Colonel Lowe , of Cragfoot , who had married Lady Anne Graham's daughter , an heiress and a personage ; and the Lowes had always been among the first people in this little heaven of exclusiveness . Nevertheless ...
Eliza Lynn. the son of Colonel Lowe , of Cragfoot , who had married Lady Anne Graham's daughter , an heiress and a personage ; and the Lowes had always been among the first people in this little heaven of exclusiveness . Nevertheless ...
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... Lowe determined : Sydney should make a good marriage . No one knew so well as himself the necessity for this ; for no one knew so well as himself how much of his wife's fortune had gone into the pockets of the bookmakers at Doncaster ...
... Lowe determined : Sydney should make a good marriage . No one knew so well as himself the necessity for this ; for no one knew so well as himself how much of his wife's fortune had gone into the pockets of the bookmakers at Doncaster ...
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... Lowe and his son sat by the fire after dinner , sipping their claret with the velvet on and cracking their walnuts as usual . “ Who was that tall young person with the Ham- ley girl to - day ? " asked the Colonel suddenly . Sydney's ...
... Lowe and his son sat by the fire after dinner , sipping their claret with the velvet on and cracking their walnuts as usual . “ Who was that tall young person with the Ham- ley girl to - day ? " asked the Colonel suddenly . Sydney's ...
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