CHAPTER XI

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A Handsome, Courtly Man--A Turkey Chase--A Visit to Livingston Manor--An Ideal Life--On Horseback from Staatsburg to New York--Village Inn Dinners--I entertain a Fashionable Party at the Gibbons Mansion--An Old House Rejuvenated--The Success of the Party--Country Life may be enjoyed here as well as in England if one has the Money and the Inclination for it--It means Hard Work for the Host, though, 139

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