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they came, in a profusion which at the time seemed to promise continuity to the line which, in the tragic event, ended abruptly with them.
The family history was typical of the Catholic squires of England; from Elizabeth’s reign till Victoria’s they lived sequestered lives, among their tenantry and kinsmen, sending their sons to school abroad, often marrying there, inter-marrying, if not, with a score of families like themselves, debarred from all preferment, and learning, in those lost generations, lessons which could still be read in the lives of the last three men of the house.
Mr Samgrass’s deft editorship had assembled and arranged a curiously homogeneous little body of writing - poetry, letters, scraps of a journal, an unpublished essay or two, which all exhaled the same high-spirited, serious
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