A Magnificent Young Man: A Novel (Classic Reprint)
(Mrs. Bladensbrook was queen regent of the estate which bo...)
Mrs. Bladensbrook was queen regent of the estate which bore the same name as she did. Whether the original possessor of Bladensbrook had taken his name from the soil, or whether the soil had taken its name from the original possessor, history does not record, but theB ladensbrooks of Bladensbrook had been powers in Loamshire for some hundreds of years, and when young Godfrey Bladensbrook, the last representative of the old family, was three years old his father was killed by a kick from one of his horses, and Mrs. Bladensbrook became for the time queen regent. Ralph, the father, the one who died from a kick of a horse, was a typical Bladensbrook, of immense size and of great personal beauty, but with an upper storey less well furnished than any other part of him. The most astute thing that he had ever done in the whole of his thirty-six years of life was his marriage. He had not married for money, nor had he gone where money was, but he had chosen a woman of undeniable position. Mrs.
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