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The Evil Shepherd

CHAPTER XVII
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The reception-rooms, too, are arranged according to my own ideas.

I have, as you may have heard, the finest private gymnasium in England.

The ballroom and music-room and private theatre, too, are famous." "And do you mean to say that you keep that huge place empty ?" Francis asked curiously.
"I have a suite of rooms there which I occasionally occupy," Sir Timothy replied, "and there are always thirty or forty servants and attendants of different sorts who have their quarters there.

I suppose that my daughter and I would be there at the present moment but for the fact that we own this cottage.

Both she and I, for residential purposes, prefer the atmosphere there." "I scarcely wonder at it," Francis agreed.
They were surrounded now by various quadrupeds.


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