Alfred and his mother were Thorpes--that is to say, people who necessarily had their own way. [Please select]
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About the thorpes and granges of the old Anglo-Saxons the ash was common, the tree being sacred and a favourite. [Please select]
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It was of no real significance that the law-student grew to be Lord Chancellor, and the bookseller remained a book-seller; in the realm of actual values, the Thorpes were as good as the Plowdens. [Please select]
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We're a clannish people, we Thorpes; we'd always help our own flesh and blood, even if we kicked them while we were doing it--but I mean outside, in the world at large.' [Please select]
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