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This first-degree murder (its motive is to provide a haven for Housekeeper Ellen's beloved though wacky sisters) might have gone unnoticed if Albert (Louis Hayward), a renegade nephew of the sisters, had not shown up at the old manor house. He guesses Auntie Ellen's guilty secret and attempts to blackmail her. Their clash of wits and wills finally ends disastrously for both...
...final stage is the "back home again in disillusionment" period, when either Radcliffe or local talent becomes the goal of the world-weary Harvard man. It is at this point that he discovers the naive beauty of the Pine Manor belle. She's always dumb but often rich, and though her regulations are stupidly strict, she can be persuaded to "check out to the library" on warm evenings...
...member of Britain's Parliament may resign or be fired. A member may vacate his seat by becoming Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds, may be eased out of the House by being appointed to the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead. There is no salary attached to these jobs and no work...
...main drive (see map) bogged a bit. Beyond dreary Minsk with its old Polish manor houses made over into collective-farm headquarters, beyond the White Russian villages with their bumptious names (They've Caught Fire, It Didn't Rain, Big Blockhead, etc.), the going got tougher. The initial Nazi torrent, catching the Russians with their rubbers off, had swept ahead breathtakingly. But in the second week it began to look as if that early ease had been misleading. The Germans came up against a tough natural line at the Berezina River where Napoleon caught hell on his return...
...never paid for golf instruction in my life. . . . My best score? Well, I fancy that was the 76 I made at Belmont Manor, Bermuda, when I was 82. Came home in 36, if my memory serves. I used to shoot my age frequently in those days...