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Title: Mr. Fortescue
Author: William Westall
Release Date: January 24, 2005 [eBook #14779]
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MR. FORTESCUE
An Andean Romance
by
WILLIAM WESTALL
CHAPTER I.
MATCHING GREEN.
A quaint old Essex village of single-storied cottages, some ivy mantled,
with dormer windows, thatched roofs, and miniature gardens, strewed with
picturesque irregularity round as fine a green as you will find in the
county. Its normal condition is rustic peace and sleepy beatitude; and it
pursues the even tenor of its way undisturbed by anything more exciting
than a meeting of the vestry, the parish dinner, the advent of a new
curate, or the exit of one of the fathers of the hamlet.
But this morning the place is all agog, and so transformed that it hardly
knows itself.
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