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Excerpt from The Question of Cain, Vol. 2 of 3
His own estimate, was his getting possession of the Old house and small park on which he had conferred the name of Horndean. The place had been known by another name for more than two centuries, and had many recollections and traditions connected with it, some of them worthy and lofty, others evil and mean, but there had come an end to the Old line and the old history. The last of the historic family to which the place had belonged had revived its evil and mean traditions in his own person during a. Long and worthless life that came to its fitting close in exile and contempt. No son of his succeeding to an inheritance which was simply one of debt and dis honour, the place was sold. Mr. Horndean bought it, and all who knew him at the time, and the neighbourhood who did not know him, supposed that now another of the fine old English country places would be turned into building-ground, and a vul.
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