He told the doctor that the property around the governor's mansion had great areas to walk.

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My sister said I was the crazy one, rattling around the three-story dilapidated mansion our great-grandfather built before he died of syphilis, wondering how I was going to pay the light bill.

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Three years later he bought Great Witchingham Hall, near Norwich - a derelict mansion with 36 acres of land which remains the headquarters of the Bernard Matthews Farms.

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Auden and Ted Geisel dragging themselves into the Random House offices in the old Villard mansion at Madison and 50th St. in New York to stories of great mergers between old publishing houses, people are at the center.

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But even if you'll never be able to afford a treasure like the Duke-Semans mansion, take comfort that the museum across the street allows access to the trappings of great wealth and beauty--for as little as a penny.

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