The Eldest Son

The Eldest Son

CHAPTER IThe Squire Is Infernally Worried IIA Question of Matrimony IIIExit Miss Bird IVThe Dower-House VLady George VIBlaythorn Rectory VIIThe Squire Puts His Foot Down VIIIThe Squire Feels Trouble Coming IXDick Pays a Sunday Visit XThe Meet at Apthorpe Common XIDick Leaves Kencote and Makes a Discovery XIIThe House Party XIIIThe Hunt Ball XIVA Shoot XVThe Guns and the Ladies XVIThe Money Question XVIISunday and Monday XVIIIMrs. Clinton Chooses a Governess XIXMrs. Clinton In Jermyn Street XXAunt Laura Intervenes XXIAn Engagement XXIIDick Comes Home XXIIIHumphrey Counts His Chickens XXIVVirginia Goes to Kencote XXVA Lawn Meet XXVIWhat Miss Phipp Saw XXVIIThe Run of the Season XXVIIIProperty XXIXBrothers XXXMiss Bird Hears All About It "Nina," said the Squire, "I'm most infernally worried." He was sitting in his wife's morning-room, in a low chair by the fire. In front of him was a table set for tea for onehimself. There were buttered toast and dry toast and preserves, a massive silver teapot, milk jug, cream jug, and sugar basin, a breakfast cup of China tea, and two boiled eggs, one of which he was attacking, sitting forward in his chair with his legs bent. He had come in from hunting a few minutes before, at about six o'clock, and it was his habit thus to consume viands which most men of his age and bulk might have been afraid of, as likely to spoil their dinner. But he was an active man, in spite of his fifty-nine years and his tendency to put on flesh, and it would have taken more than a tea that was almost a meal to reduce his appetite for dinner at eight, after a day in the saddle and a lunch off sandwiches and a flask of sherry. When his tea was over he would indulge himself in half an hour's nap, with the Times open at the leader page on his knee, and go up to dress, feeling every inch of him a sportsman and an English country gentleman. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 38646
Author: Marshall, Archibald
Release Date: Jan 23, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English