Kingthorpe

Names ending with "thorpe," such as Kingthorpe, near Pickering, also indicate an

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Kingthorpe before Brian Walford could feel the oppression of banishment from his kindred.

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That particular Christmas-tide at Kingthorpe was a time of innocent mirth and youthful happiness which might have banished black care, for the nonce, from the oldest, weariest breast.

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Was it for his own sake, or for love of her friends at Kingthorpe?

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Kingthorpe was unwontedly excited by this gorgeous apparition, and the inhabitants remained at garden gates and cottage doors while so much as a horse's tail was visible.

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But although Lady Palliser thought Miss Wendover's letter deficient in ceremony, she was not the less ready to welcome Ida's Kingthorpe friends; so a hearty invitation to dine and stay the night was sent to the Colonel and his wife, to Aunt Betsy, and as many of the junior members of the family as the biggest available carriage would hold.

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The gong began booming and buzzing as Bessie pinned a big yellow rose among the folds of her Madras fichu, and Mrs. Jardine and her hostess went down to the drawing-room lovingly arms entwined, as in that long-ago holiday, when Ida was a guest at Kingthorpe.

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I am going away from Kingthorpe to-morrow, perhaps for ever.

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He was sorry that Aunt Betsy's good nature had been stronger than her judgment, and that she had brought such a girl to Kingthorpe as a permanent resident.

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Kingthorpe '-- Mrs. Palliser regarded church-going as an oppressive condition of prosperous respectability.

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