Word: bolinvars
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...Bolinvars has two heroes. One is wealthy Bois Hugo Bolinvar, last of the sporting, aristocratic Virginia Bolinvars. Hugo looked like a Greek god and glittered with "inner fires." He owned a magnificent estate jampacked with foxhounds and liveried "darkies . . . with mirthful grins." Hugo was loved by "the most beautiful girl in ... all the South." But he was afraid that he was a bastard. He could not ask his mother about it because his father had murdered her years ago. So Hugo was ashamed to marry...
Hugo's cousin, Devereux Bolinvar. last of the sporting, aristocratic New Jersey Bolinvars, is the book's second hero. "Dev" (6 ft. tall, "fit as a panther") knew all about Cousin Hugo's guilty worry. But Dev was too much of a gentleman to raise the question, and Hugo believed in letting sleeping dogs lie. So the cousins never spoke. But they spent all their time trying to outdo one another on horseback...
Neck & neck, but strictly speechless, the cousins hunted boars in Hungary, wolves in Russia, stags in Scotland, foxes in England. Soon all the fox hunters and debutantes in Europe and America were divided-half for New Jersey's Bolinvar, half for Virginia...
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