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"Oh, there are precedents. It was done in the Bearsdale case." "There was a doubt there." Lady Evenswood knew all about the Bearsdale case; though it was ancient history to Southend, she had danced with both the parties to it. "The House was against the marriage unanimously." But he did not deny the doubt. "Well, what are you going to do?" she asked. "It would be necessary to approach Disney."
"It was done in the Bearsdale case," suggested Lady Evenswood. "Of course there was a doubt there " "Anyhow a barony but a viscounty would be more convenient," murmured Southend. Mina was puzzled. These mysteries were beyond her. She had never heard of the Bearsdale case, and she did not understand why in certain circumstances a viscounty would be more convenient.
You remember that the unsuccessful claimant in the Bearsdale case got a barony? That's our precedent. But it's felt not to go quite all the way because there was a doubt there. And that could be done by raising you to the peerage, under a new and, as we hope, a superior title.
The next day found her at Lady Evenswood's. They nodded wise heads. "I was always inclined to think that Robert would take that view." "He fears that the Bearsdale case won't carry him all the way. Depend upon it, that's what he feels." "Well, there was the doubt there, you see." Mina was rather tired of the doubt in the Bearsdale case.
That wasn't done in the Bearsdale case, nor in any other that I ever heard of." "We shouldn't press that. A barony would do. But if Disney thought that under the very exceptional circumstances a viscounty " "I don't see why you want it," she persisted. The slight embarrassment in Southend's manner stirred the old lady's curiosity.
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