Crossword-Solution: PEYTONS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Was he to go through the same cross-examination he had undergone with the Peytons? “Yes,” he said doggedly, “I am--but he's dead, and you know it.” “Dead--of course.” “Sartin.” “He's dead.” “The Kernel's planted,” said the men in chorus.

From which it appeared that the Peytons were very rich, and, in addition to their possessions in the lower country, owned a rancho in Santa Clara and a house in San Francisco.

Peyton's brows passed off, however, as he quickly and earnestly went on to say that it was impossible for the Peytons in their present relations to the natives to judge them, or to be judged by them fairly.

Peyton expended all the ingenuities of tenderness in keeping up her son’s courage; and she was seconded in the task by a friend whose acquaintance Dick had made at the Beaux Arts, and who, two years before the Peytons, had returned to New York to start on his own career as an architect.

Close by were the Rogerses,--he was a fashionable physician; the Hillary Peytons; the Dentons,--all people, according to Cairy, "one might know." When Isabelle came to look more closely into this matter of settling herself in the city, she regretted the Colonel's illiberal will.