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Sir Willoughby Patterne, rich, fashionable and fatuous, is "The Egoist". He pursues three women, each more discerning than he, with little thought for anything but the fulfilment of his own desires and the gratification of his vanity that will come from a prestigous marriage.
Sir Willoughby Patterne, rich, fashionable and fatuous, is "The Egoist". He pursues three women, each more discerning than he, with little thought for anything but the fulfilment of his own desires and the gratification of his vanity that will come from a prestigous marriage.
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THERE WAS an ominously anxious watch of eyes visible and invisible over the infancy of Willoughby, fifth in descent from Simon Patterne, of Patterne Hall, premier of this family, a lawyer, a man of solid acquirements and stout ambition, who well understood the foundation work of a House, and was endowed with the power of saying No to those first agents of destruction, besieging relatives. Read the first page
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THERE WAS an ominously anxious watch of eyes visible and invisible over the infancy of Willoughby, fifth in descent from Simon Patterne, of Patterne Hall, premier of this family, a lawyer, a man of solid acquirements and stout ambition, who well understood the foundation work of a House, and was endowed with the power of saying No to those first agents of destruction, besieging relatives. Read the first page
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