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Show Couldn't Call It a Cold House. The best perhaps of the many stories that have long been current regarding regard-ing the late Lord Crewe in that society in which he was a conspicuous feature is, in the opinion of a writer in The Speaker, that of his remark to his sister, sis-ter, the first Lady Houghton, as they stood watching the fire which all but destroyed his noble ancestral home. "Well, Annabel, you have often said Crewe was a cold house, but you can't call it that now." Crewe was restored at enormous cost by its owner, and it is now one of the most beautiful houses in the world. |