Drane's

"Well, Drane's old enough to look out for hisse'f," said Jim Cal, rising and trying his joints apparently for a movement toward home.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

ONE morning Paul, with a clump of papers in his hand, entered his pleasant private room at Drane's Court, stepped briskly to the long Cromwellian table placed in the window bay, and sat down to his correspondence.

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She was tired; Drane's Court, where she had been born and had lived all her girlhood's life, was restful; and the seat in the shade of the great beech was cunningly curved.

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She had therefore shut up her London house in Portland Place, Colonel Winwood's home while Parliament sat, and had come to her brother's house, Drane's Court, her home when her presence was not needed in London.

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And so, as the years passed, Paul gained influence not only in the little circle of Drane's Court and Portland Place, but also in the outer world.

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But he was terribly anxious, more anxious than ever, to leave Drane's Court with all the prestige of the prospective Awakener.

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The little township of Morebury -- half a mile from the great gates of Drane's Court -- felt Miss Winwood's control in diverse ways.

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To-morrow, with his jacket buttoned, he could make his exit from Drane's Court in the desired splendour -- scattering largesse to menials and showing to hosts the reflected glow of the golden prospects before him; but for this evening the glory had departed.

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But he was terribly anxious, more anxious than ever, to leave Drane's Court with all the prestige of the prospective Awakener.

The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896

And so, as the years passed, Paul gained influence not only in the little circle of Drane's Court and Portland Place, but also in the outer world.

The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896