Fairfax

Fairfax County, the most populous jurisdiction in the state, was once a Republican bastion.

The cook here turned to me, saying that Mrs. Fairfax was waiting for me: so I departed.

Fairfax put out his arms toward her, but did not enfold her.

Mr. Fairfax had breakfasted alone, and was gone to Norminster before she came down stairs.

“That was very false economy,” remarked Mrs. Fairfax, who now again caught the drift of the dialogue.

Are we, whose mother was a Fairfax, whose father was a Bland, sitting at our own table with a man who is not a gentleman by birth?