An African Millionaire (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Grant Allen | knygos.lt

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"[...]answered most of them with surprising correctness. "His name? His name begins with an S I think: -You call him Seymour." He paused long between each clause, as if the facts were revealed to him slowly. "Seymour-Wilbraham-Earl of Strafford. No, not Earl of Strafford! Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. There seems to be some connection in somebody's mind now present between Wentworth and Strafford. I am not English. I do not know what it means. But they are somehow the same name, Wentworth and Strafford." He gazed around, apparently for confirmation. A lady came to his rescue. "Wentworth was the surname of the great Earl of Strafford," she murmured gently; "and I was wondering, as you spoke, whether Mr. Wentworth might possibly be descended from him." "He is," the Seer replied instantly, with a flash of those dark eyes. And I thought this curious; for though my father always maintained the reality of the relationship, there was one link wanting to complete the pedigree. He could not make sure that the Hon. Thomas Wilbraham Wentworth was the father of[...]."