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| | Memoirs of the Earl of Listowel: Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | There are scores, if not hundreds of houses on the estate, and probably not one yields a ground rent of less than one hundred pounds per annum, while some of the larger mansions produce hundreds a year in ground rents. |
 | | It is to this property that the Earl of Listowel's grandson, born yesterday, is the ultimate heir, as well, of course, as to the Irish estates." I have spent the best part of my life in London or its suburbs. |
 | | She was always hopelessly incompetent as a public speaker, but she had so much tact and charm that she was usually able to get her way in committees. |
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