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...more political fish to fry, gave Patrick only cool encouragement. When the fish were well cooked and the government overturned, Patrick was hit on the head in a riot and found he remembered Marie very well. But before they had time for a happy ending, Patrick's old Etonian spirit got him into a last and fatal scrape...
...Cecils, he became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church in theology. To the U. S. the Lord Bishop brought his tall, weathered wife, Lady William (Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham) Cecil. They toured New England, visited Philadelphia and Princeton, flew to Richmond. In Chicago...
...gave them more to eat than they have had in many months at home. Among the suburbs of the capital, schoolhouses, suburban railway stations and district lodging houses offered shelter for the night, but London itself was different. In London the hunger horde came up against that frigid Old Etonian, one-armed Sir Edward Hilton Young, His Majesty's Minister of Health, who was wounded at Zeebrugge Mole in 1918?a fact of which he is so proud that like Admiral Nelson he pins his empty right sleeve forward on his chest...
...Best of the lot, and favorite of old Grandpa Jarrold, was his widowed daughter-in-law, Evelyn. She enjoyed her position, her wealth, her adored son Dan's adoration-even her widowhood, until she met Miles Vane-Merrick. Miles was an aristocratic but land-poor farmer, an Old Etonian but intelligent and unconventional, Member of Parliament but a Laborite. And he fell in love with her though he was young enough to be her nephew. Conventional as only a bourgeoise could be, Evelyn knew she was ruining herself by becoming his mistress. But she would not marry...
...China assumed that this order was what Japan and Old Etonian Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson had put over-that it was Japan's secret price for agreeing to evacuate. Raging mad, prominent Chinese sent telegrams from Peiping, Tientsin, Canton, Hankow and Shanghai demanding that the Chinese Government at Nanking resign, accusing its members of "betraying China...