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“But ultimately,” continued the bishop, “Cedric Hardcastle will best be reave him an extra third of a pint when she was the milk monitor at their primary school in Huddersfield, and he could not have been h he could never understand why the lad had chosen Oxford, and not Leeds, to complete his education

“Allow s for one of my oldest and dearest friends with the words froham:

He never knehat envy was, nor hate;

His soul was filled orth and honesty,

And with another thing besides, quite out of date,

Called modesty”

Malcolne

“To the new chairs,” he toasted, as Sloane sat in the chair behind Cedric’s desk for the first time “So, ill be your first executive action?”

“Make sure we close the Shifnal deal before anyone else works out why it’s so cheap at one point six million”

“And your second?” asked Mellor

“Sack Sebastian Clifton,” he spat out, “along with anyone else as close to Hardcastle and went along with his outdated philosophy This bank is about to join the real world, where profits, not people, will be its only mantra And if any customers threaten to move their account, let them, especially if they’re from Yorkshire Froot pennies, don’t bother to bank with us”

Sebastian bowed his head as the pallbearers lowered the coffin into the grave so no one would see his tears Ross Buchanan didn’t attes Eood and wise friend

As they walked sloay froraveside, Arnold Hardcastle and his mother joined them

“Why wasn’t Adrian Sloane here?” asked Ross “Not to mention half a dozen other directors?”