Sublime

Lord Petre, Alexander repeated to himself. Baron Petre of Ingatestone. Heir to one of the greatest Catholic families in England.

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John Caryll was a Catholic landowner like Sir Anthony, whose estate, Ladyholt, was a short distance from Alexander’s family home in Binfield. But Caryll’s good opinion mattered very little to Alexander this afternoon.

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A little light has gone out of our lives with the leaving of lovely Gloria, who has completed her scenes here and gone off on an Austrian holiday, where her warm exuberance is probably melting the mountain snows. She is quite a girl; she endeared herself to the whole unit, and, for myself, I couldn’t have wished for a more delightful double agent t

The father fell into his chair pale and trembling; Arthur Gride plucked and fumbled at his hat, and durst not raise his eyes from the floor; even Ralph crouched for the moment like a beaten hound, cowed by the presence of one young innocent girl!

the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped one out of the table.

decorous.