Product Description
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Upstart
Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, manufacturer and
retailer o{ boots, shoes and clogs, decided that his new station in life
deserved a more imposing residence, so when a, thirty-four-roomed mansion,
situated on the outskirts of Fellburn, became available, he made an offer, take
it or leave it, and found himself the owner of a property he saw as a fitting
display of his wealth and a suitable reward for his newly gained position in
the business community. And that was not all, for together with the house came
a clutch of servants, headed by the butler, Maitland, who at once made
plain his belief that Samuel. far from being the gentleman his predecessor had
been, was no more than an upstart.
So began a clash of wills between master and man, at which Samuel Fairbrother
discovered he was at a distinct disadvantage, for Maitiand, urbane and
apparently well educated. was well skilled in the art of maintaining a
position of indispensability. Fairbrother, for his part. was only too aware that he
dare nor dispense with Maitland's services and was forced to conclude that
it was a conflict he could not easily win. And so an uneasy truce was declared
between them.
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