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After the death of Ceddie's English father, he and his mother live together in Brooklyn during the 1880s. Ceddie's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, had disowned Ceddie's father when he married an American. But when the Earl's remaining son dies, he accepts Ceddie as Lord Fauntleroy, his heir, and sends for Ceddie and his mother. Ceddie uses the first of his newly found wealth to do some favors for his old friends, then heads to England, where he must try to overcome the Earl's dislike for his mother.