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The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
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Dillsborough.



CHAPTER II

The Morton Family


I can hardly describe accurately the exact position of the Masters
family without first telling all that I know about the Morton
family; and it is absolutely essential that the reader should know
all the Masters family intimately. Mr. Masters, as I have said in
the last chapter, was the attorney in Dillsborough, and the Mortons
had been for centuries past the squires of Bragton.

I need not take the reader back farther than old Reginald Morton.
He had come to the throne of his family as a young man, and had sat
upon it for more than half a century. He had been a squire of the
old times, having no inclination for London seasons, never wishing
to keep up a second house, quite content with his position as quire
of Bragton, but with considerable pride about him as to that
position. He had always liked to have his house full, and had hated
petty oeconomies. He had for many years hunted the county at his
own expense, the amusement at first not having been so expensive as
it afterwards became. When he began the work, it had been considered
sufficient to hunt twice a week. Now the Rufford and Ufford hounds
have four days, and sometimes a bye. It went much against Mr.
Reginald Morton's pride when he was first driven to take a
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