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Red Pottage

Chapter 8 No.8

Word Count: 784    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

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entleman as he was leaving Tattersall's, "what mi

m the first night I landed. In fact, I stepped out of the train on to his royal toe travelling incog. I was just going to advise him to draw in his feelers a hit and give the Colonies a chance,

u enjoy

the right thing, and he told me how I must hop up whenever he came in, and all that sort of child's play. There

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llars are like before I store my wine in them.

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my calling on Miss-? I

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ask you

s an oversight. I expe

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. A little thing like

are on the lookout for enc

go at once. I've got to call on Lady

West.

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t live on the way to Woking. Lady

. And what has become of Hester?

in the country a few miles from

I remember him.

rnest, or are you talking

rnest." He

has taken a violent fancy to Miss West. I don't think it is returned,

d then she'll tell her when they are combing their back hair. And then if I find, later on, I don't like her and step off the grass, I shall have behaved like a perfect brute, and

e. Besides, I don't suppose Miss West will look at you. You're a wretche

n to marry you, there is hope for everybody. I don't expect it will be as easy as f

equently seen Rachel and Hugh riding together at foot's pace. Possibly his offer to h

ence, proved a solid spoke but for a few days only. Ra

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“Mary Cholmondeley (8 June 1859 – 15 July 1925) was an English novelist. Her best-selling novel, Red Pottage, satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life. Red Pottage caused a scandal when it was first published, in 1899, due to its themes of adultery, the emancipation of women and its satire of the clergy. The Novel follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband). Hester, a novelist, lives with her judgmental brother, the pompous vicar of the fictional village of Warpington. Hester's brother disapproves of her writing and eventually burns the manuscript of a novel she has been writing. This leads Hester into a prolonged nervous illness...”
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