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THE GOLDEN SCARECROW
BY
HUGH WALPOLE
AUTHOR OF
"THE DUCHESS OF WREXE," "FORTITUDE," "THE PRELUDE TO
ADVENTURE," "THE WOODEN HORSE." ETC.
NEW YORK
1915
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
PROLOGUE--HUGH SEYMOUR 11
I. HENRY FITZGEORGE STRETHER 43
II. ERNEST HENRY 65
III. ANGELINA 94
IV. BIM ROCHESTER 121
V. NANCY ROSS 146
VI. 'ENERY 172
VII. BARBARA FLINT 198
VIII. SARAH TREFUSIS 226
IX. YOUNG JOHN SCARLET 256
EPILOGUE 274
PROLOGUE
HUGH SEYMOUR
I
When Hugh Seymour was nine years of age he was sent from Ceylon, where
his parents lived, to be educated in England. His relations having, for
the most part, settled in foreign countries, he spent his holidays as a
very minute and pale-faced "paying guest" in various houses where other
children were of more importance than he, or where children as a race
were of no importance at all.
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