What is "winton"

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Who could have seemed to himself, and, indeed, to others, less likely than Charles Clare Winton to fall over head and ears in love when he stepped into the Belvoir Hunt ballroom at Grantham that December evening, twentyfour years ago?

Yet, in one month from that night, Winton and she were lovers, not only in thought but in deed.

It was to Markey he had given the order that Gyp was to be little Miss Winton for the future.

II In spite of his victory over all human rivals in the heart of Gyp, Winton had a rival whose strength he fully realized perhaps for the first time now that she was gone, and he, before the fire, was brooding over her departure and the past.

About twice a year, Winton took her up to town to stay with his unmarried sister Rosamund in Curzon Street.

Without concerning himself in the least with problems of sociology, Winton had by nature an open hand and heart for cottagers, and abominated interference with their lives.

When she came gliding in like that, a slender, rounded figure, her creamy, dark-eyed, oval face all cloudy, she seemed to Winton to have grown up of a sudden.

In the few seconds before an answer that could in no way be evaded, Winton had time for a tumult of reflection.

She was a queer mixture in those days, would give up any pleasure for Winton, and most for Betty or her aunt--her little governess was gone--but of nobody else did she seem to take account, accepting all that was laid at her feet as the due of her looks, her dainty frocks, her music, her good riding and dancing, her talent for amateur theatricals and mimicry.

She was a tall and handsome woman, a year older than Winton, with a long, aristocratic face, deep-blue, rather shining eyes, a gentlemanly manner, warm heart, and one of those indescribable, not unmelodious drawls that one connects with an unshakable sense of privilege.

Instinct and so much life with Winton made the girl regard it as beneath her to be shocked.

Coming in from a ride, a week after she had sat with Winton under the Schiller statue, Gyp found on her dressing-table a bunch of Gloire de Dijon and La France roses.

They had bought no programme, all music being the same to Winton, and Gyp not needing any.

IV Gyp was in the habit of walking with Winton to the Kochbrunnen, where, with other patient-folk, he was required to drink slowly for twenty minutes every morning.

After lunch, when Winton was settling his accounts, she wandered out through the long park stretching up the valley.