A Marked Man: Some Episodes in His Life —— Some Episodes in His Life

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ISBN: 9781334532566 出版年：2018 页码：370 Ada Cambridge Forgotten Books

It was but a little village of one long, straggling street, half-a-dozen farms, and intersecting lanes bordered with high hedgerows and briar-tangled ditches — a place of no consequence whatever in itself. Its sole title to importance was its immemorial association with the Delavel family, with the old Hall which had housed the family's head for so many centuries, and with the old church where so much of the family's mortal dust reposed — where floors and walls and dusky windows were covered with the records of its great alliances and its famous deeds.