Starden

Meredyth family estate at Starden in Kent, Starden Hall, meaning to return to England, and take up his residence there.

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Meredyth, and the man to be Mrs. Bonner's lodger, the man that Joan had cut that day in Starden.

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Two minutes later the carter trudging on his way passed a solitary man smoking by a gate, and far down the road a woman walked quickly towards Starden.

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Then suddenly Ellice broke away, and a few minutes later was riding hard down the road to Starden.

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And now the landscape was growing familiar, a little while, and they were running through Starden village.

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But they were very late when they came into Starden, and with still some six and a half miles to go before they could reassure Connie.

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So he drove very slowly the six and a half miles to Starden, because he had many questions to ask of himself, questions to which answers did not come readily.

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I am living in the country, then -- in Kent, at Starden.

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Never so slowly as to-day had John Everard driven the six and a half miles that divided Buddesby and Little Langbourne from Starden.

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Life for her would begin again here in Starden, and the past should hold nothing, nothing, nothing!

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