James Payn
Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son
A Novel
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066196707
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
CAREW OF CROMPTON.
Had you lived in Breakneckshire twenty years ago, or even any where in the Midlands, it would be superfluous to tell you of Carew of Crompton. Every body thereabout was acquainted with him either personally or by hearsay. You must almost certainly have known somebody who had had an adventure with that eccentric personage—one who had been ridden down by him, for that mighty hunter never turned to the right hand nor to the left for any man, nor paid attention to any rule of road; or one who, more fortunate, had been "cleared" by him on his famous