Word: alconleigh
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...setting of most of Pursuit is Alconleigh-a forbidding country mansion littered with terriers, halberds, "penholders made of tigers' teeth," a dusty collection of rare minerals, pet dormice, horses, French governesses, peasants and pheasants. Winter & summer, day began at 5 a.m., when Lord Alconleigh greeted the dawn with one his favorite records (Drake Is Sailing West, Lads, the "mad" scene from Lucia, or Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, sung by Galli-Curci), and strode on to the lawn cracking a Canadian stock whip. After breakfast, he gave his daughters a brief head start, then hunted them crosscountry with four...
...Ladies' Man. Social life was sparse at Alconleigh, because Lord Alconleigh declined all invitations ("perfectly good food at home," he always said). But every few years he took his daughters to the House of Lords, and left them in the gallery while he retired to a back bench for a snooze. Once, he awoke-to speak against admitting peeresses to the House, his objection being that the ladies would try to use the lords' washroom. "It's what they all thought, you know," said daughter Linda, "but he was the only one who dared...
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