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George Borrow and His Circle

CHAPTER XV
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Ten years later the type of the whole New Testament in that language was lying in the Russian capital.
'All that was required was a Manchu scholar to see the work through the press'.[97] Here came the chance for Borrow.

At this period there resided at Oulton Hall, Suffolk, but a few miles from Norwich, a family of the name of Skepper, Edward and Anne his wife, with their two children, Breame and Mary.

Mary married in 1817 one Henry Clarke, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy.

He died a few months afterwards of consumption.

Of this marriage there was a posthumous child, Henrietta Mary, born but two months after her father's death.


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