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'Tis thus he will be writ down in history, as his Grace his father hath been before him: Duke of Osmonde Marquess of Roxholm Earl of Osmonde Earl of Marlowell Baron Dorlocke of Paulyn, and Baron Mertoun of Charleroy." "Can a man then be six men at once?" said Gregory Watt. "Ay, and each of him be master of a great house and rich estate. 'Tis so with this one.
The bells pealed at intervals throughout the day in at least five villages over which his Grace of Osmonde was lord at Roxholm they pealed, at Marlowell Dane, at Paulyn Dorlocke, at Mertounhurst, at Camylott and in each place, when night fell, bonfires were lighted and oxen roasted whole, while there were dancing and fiddling and drinking of ale on each village green.
He had remembered tenderly the stately beauty of his beloved Camylott, the bosky dells at Marlowell Dane, the quaint dignity of the Elizabethan manor at Paulyn Dorlocke, the soft hills near Mertounhurst, where myriads of harebells grew and swayed in the summer breeze as it swept them; and the clear lake in the park at Roxholm, where the deer came to drink, and as a boy he had lain in his boat and rocked among the lily-pads in the early morning, when the great white water-flowers spread their wax cups broad and seemed to hold the gold of the sun.
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