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" you know this Lord Etheringhame, of whom I hear such romantic histories?" said Adelaide Merton to her brother. "Not I. There's devilish good shooting in his woods; but they say he won't let a creature come near his grounds—he can't bear to see any body." "How very interesting!" "A great fool." "It is a noble place." "He is not married, Adelaide." "Do you know," said the lady, reining her horse closer to her brother's, with whom, faute