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Mr. Gerton, Kenelm Eyrle's steward, land agent and general manager, smiled to himself to think how his patron and employer was gradually falling into a snare.
"He will marry the widow as sure as fate," he thought to himself, "and we shall have something like old times at ‘The Towers. ' Mourning all his life for a dead woman who did not care for him is too ridiculous."