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The Golden Scarecrow
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Title: The Golden Scarecrow
Author: Hugh Walpole
Release Date: November 29, 2004 [EBook #14201]
Language: English
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THE GOLDEN SCARECROW
BY
HUGH WALPOLE
AUTHOR OF
"THE DUCHESS OF WREXE," "FORTITUDE," "THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE," "THE WOODEN HORSE." ETC.
NEW YORK
1915
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
CHAPTER PAGE
PROLOGUE--HUGH SEYMOUR 11 I. HENRY FITZGEORGE STRETHER 43 II. ERNEST HENRY 65 III. ANGELINA 94 IV. BIM ROCHESTER 121 V. NANCY ROSS 146 VI. 'ENERY 172 VII. BARBARA FLINT 198 VIII. SARAH TREFUSIS 226 IX. YOUNG JOHN SCARLET 256 EPILOGUE 274
PROLOGUE
HUGH SEYMOUR
I
When Hugh Seymour was nine years of age he was sent from Ceylon, where his parents lived, to be educated in England. His relations having, for the most part, settled in foreign countries, he spent his holidays as a very minute and pale-faced "paying guest" in various houses wher