Word: bucktrout
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...deciding for herself. For 30 years Lady Slane has dreamed of living alone in a little house in Hampstead ; she has even had her eye on the house. Against her children's protests she retires thither, having made most unbusinesslike arrangements with the owner, eccentric Mr. Bucktrout. She lives there happily with her old French maid, seeing almost nobody until even more eccentric old Fitz-George, a millionaire miser and famed col lector, renews an acquaintance lapsed for 50 years. Then FitzGeorge dies, electrifies Lady Slane 's family and the nation by leaving her all his immense fortune...
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