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  • Two things had greatly disgusted him with Lisle Court, -- trifles they might be with others, but they were not trifles to Cuthbert Maltravers; in the first place, a man who had been his father's attorney, and who was the very incarnation of coarse unrepellable familiarity, had bought an estate close by the said Lisle Court, and had, _horresco referens_, been made a baronet!

    Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Two things had greatly disgusted him with Lisle Court, -- trifles they might be with others, but they were not trifles to Cuthbert Maltravers; in the first place, a man who had been his father's attorney, and who was the very incarnation of coarse unrepellable familiarity, had bought an estate close by the said Lisle Court, and had, _horresco referens_, been made a baronet!

    Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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