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Surely there must be a competition for my lovely child among more congenial friends." "Well," said Elvira, "there were the Folliots. We met them at Nice, and Lady Flora did ask me the other day, but Mrs. Brownlow does not like them, and Allen says they are not good form." "Ah! I knew you could not want for friends.
He had listened, with an attempt at a smile, to all this fiery indignation, but as Mary spoke the last words he was suddenly aware of something that drew his attention from her and them. Through an opening in Ransford's garden hedge he could see the garden door of the Folliots' house across the Close. And at that moment out of it emerge Folliot himself in conversation with Glassdale!
So that comes from Mr. Folliot. What has he to do with it? And are these two putting their heads together or are these bills quite independent of each other? Hang me if I understand it!" Bryce read and re-read the contents of the two bills. And then he thought for awhile before speaking. "Well," he said at last, "there's probably this in it the Folliots are very wealthy people. Mrs.
She had to pass the Folliots' house in the far corner of the Close on her way home a fine old mansion set in well-wooded grounds, enclosed by a high wall of old red brick. A door in that wall stood open, and inside it, talking to one of his gardeners, was Mr. Folliot the vistas behind him were gay with flowers and rich with the roses which he passed all his days in cultivating.
Land was little worth without hands to till it; labourers enough could not be obtained from England and Scotland, and the Hamiltons, Stewarts, Folliots, Chichesters, and Lamberts, having, from sheer necessity, to choose between Irish cultivators and letting their new estates lie waste and unprofitable, it is needless to say what choice they made.
Land was little worth without hands to till it; labourers enough could not be obtained from England and Scotland, and the Hamiltons, Stewarts, Folliots, Chichesters, and Lamberts, having, from sheer necessity, to choose between Irish cultivators and letting their new estates lie waste and unprofitable, it is needless to say what choice they made.
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