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Fearing to tackle the popular statesman himself, they inverted the ordinary tactics of an opposition, and fell foul of Dundas, Lord Melville, then Treasurer of the Navy, who had successfully carried the country through the great naval war with revolutionary France.
"Bless me, gentlemen!" cried Miss Dundas, frightened at the angry looks of the little honorable; "why, my lord, I thought you hated squabbles?" "So I do, Miss Dundas," replied he, laying down his book and coming forward; "and upon my honor, Mr. Lascelles," added he, smiling, and turning towards the coxcomb, who stood nidging his head with anger by Miss Beaufort's chair, "upon my honor, Mr.
To be sure, had Dundas, or whoever got Burns the place of gauger, given him one of the many sinecures of two or three hundred pounds a year that were wasted on idle scions of titled families, an aureole of glory would now shine through the darkness that environs the memory of George III. So much for George Guelf. Now for Thomas Carlyle.
I was glad to find myself once more in a place connected with many happy days. Met Sir R. Dundas and my old friend George, now Lord Abercromby, with his lady, and a beautiful girl, his daughter. He is what he always was the best-humoured man living; and our meetings, now more rare than usual, are seasoned with a recollection of old frolics and old friends.
Lady Tinemouth, you will allow me to draw your kinsfolks' pictures?" "Yes, Sophia, provided you don't make them caricatures. Remember, your candor is at stake; to-morrow Mr. Constantine will judge for himself." "And I am sure he will agree with me. Now, Lady Dundas, if you please! I know your ladyship is a great stickler for precedence." Lady Tinemouth laughed, and interrupted her
"Oh, you, Miss Dundas," he murmured, as he advanced with an extended, limp hand. "I thought I heard my wife's voice." "I have come to offer my condolences," murmured Dora, unable to do more than utter commonplaces in the face of his grief. "Yes, yes thank you thank you. It is a great blow, but I suppose we shall be reconciled in time."
"She shall not be my mother, papa," said Learn: "I will not own her." "You will do what I tell you to do," her father returned with admirable self-command. "Not when you tell me to do a crime," flashed Leam. Mr. Dundas smiled. "Your words are a trifle strong," he said. "It is a crime," she reiterated.
"Throw the letter into the street, Phemy!" cried Miss Dundas, affecting sudden terror; "who knows but what it is a fever the man has got, and we may all catch our deaths." "Heaven forbid!" exclaimed Mary, in a voice of real alarm; but it was for Thaddeus not fear of any infection which the paper might bring to herself. "Lascelles, take away that filthy scrawl from Phemy.
"Ladies! ladies!" exclaimed Somerset, amazed at so extraordinary a scene; "what has happened?" Lady Dundas lifted up her clenched hand in a passion. "A jade! a hussy!" cried her vulgar ladyship, incapable of articulating more.
Pitt had great difficulty in forming a cabinet, and was the only cabinet minister in the Commons. His main support in that house was Henry Dundas, treasurer of the navy his life-long friend.
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