Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina

Earl de Montford sat in a plainly furnished room in his stately mansion. Gorgeously decorated as were theother apartments of his princely residence, this apartment, with its plain business-look--its hard benches forsuch of the tenantry as came to him or his agent on business--its walls garnished with abstracts of the Gameand Poor Law Enactments--its worn old chairs and heavy oak presses, the open doors of some of whichdisclosed bundles of old papers, parchments, etc.--this little room, the only one almost ever seen by any savethe aristocracy and their followers--exercised and contained frequently more of human hope and fear than anyother...
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Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina