Donnithorne

The Donnithorne Arms stood at the entrance of the village, and a small farmyard and stackyard which flanked it, indicating that there was a pretty take of land attached to the inn, gave the traveller a promise of good feed for himself and his horse, which might well console him for the ignorance in which the weather-beaten sign left him as to the heraldic bearings of that ancient family, the Donnithornes.

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“Oh, by Jove!” said Captain Donnithorne, laughing.

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I should have been sure you would turn out a Donnithorne.

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Turning round to take a chair, Captain Donnithorne said,

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Her joy and pride in the honour paid to her darling son Adam was beginning to be worsted in the conflict with the jealousy and fretfulness which had revived when Adam came to tell her that Captain Donnithorne desired him to join the dancers in the hall.

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Until today, she had never looked farther into the future than to the next time Captain Donnithorne would come to the

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The fact was, Hetty had really forgotten the difference of the clocks when she told Captain Donnithorne that she set out at eight, and this, with her lingering pace, had made her nearly half an hour later than usual.

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Loamshire — purse open to all public objects — in short, everything as different as possible from what was now associated with the name of Donnithorne.

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Hetty spoke more audibly now, but still rather tremulously; she thought, perhaps she seemed as stupid to Captain Donnithorne as Luke Britton did to her.

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Donnithorne had cast at her than of Adam and his troubles.

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