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"My younger brother Maurice," she began, breathlessly "you've never met him, I know, but you've heard me speak of him. He is private secretary to Sir James Wentley " "Minister for Foreign Affairs?" Ruff asked, swiftly. "Yes! Maurice wants to go in for the Diplomatic Service. He is a dear, and so clever!" "Is it Maurice who is in trouble?" Peter Ruff asked. "Why didn't he come himself?"
"And didst thou, Little John," said Robin in a sad voice, "call his lordship a fat priest?" "Ay," said Little John sorrowfully. "And a man-eating bishop?" "Ay," said Little John, more sorrowfully than before. "And a money-gorging usurer?" "Ay," said Little John in so sorrowful a voice that it might have drawn tears from the Dragon of Wentley.
He held the sacrosanct position of a squarson, being at once Squire and Parson of the parish of Little Wentley. To this desirable home and opulent share of earth's good things did Mr. St. John Deloraine succeed in boyhood. He went to Oxford, he travelled a good deal, he was held in great favor and affection by the County matrons and the long-nosed young ladies of the County.
"And didst thou, Little John," said Robin in a sad voice, "call his lordship a fat priest?" "Ay," said Little John sorrowfully. "And a man-eating bishop?" "Ay," said Little John, more sorrowfully than before. "And a money-gorging usurer?" "Ay," said Little John in so sorrowful a voice that it might have drawn tears from the Dragon of Wentley.
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