Unto the Third Generation

Excerpt from Unto the Third Generation
To begin the story of Lucy 'Hill' at its real beginning, one must go back to Colonel Denman, nearly a hundred years ago.
The Colonel returned from Bengal about the year 1809, after proving himself an excellent servant of the East India Company - that is to say, an excellent tool for the accomplishment of all extortion, oppression, and murder upon the populations which he was supposed to heal and administer - atrocities committed in India by men who, in England (as Macaulay has said), would have blushed at a doubtful act or an untruthful word.
At the period when the Colonel was a young clerk in the India House, the Denmans had fallen upon evil days, and Denman Abbey (twelve miles north-west of Norwich) had passed into other hands. His first act after his second return in 1809 was to repurchase it. It was still the age of the 'nabobs, ' when all sorts of men returned from India (always a poor land) loaded with wealth, and there was a rumour that the wealth of Colonel Denman was to the wealth of other nabobs as sunlight to moonlight.
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