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Last week he threw the local blacksmith over a wall into a stream, and it was only by paying all the money I was able to gather together that I was able to avoid another public incident. There are constantly such incidents, and he is often in trouble with the police and the courts. He has no friends at all, except some gypsies who he allows to camp on the weed-covered acres that are the grounds of the estate.