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I must get Lord Eskdale, she added, musingly, 'to give me a little dinner, and ask M. de Sidonia to meet me. 'He never goes anywhere; at least I have heard so, said Tancred. 'He once used to do, and to give us great fêtes. I remember hearing of them before I was out. We must make him resume them. He is immensely rich. 'I dare say he may be, said Tancred.
I think, with Brace, Bernard, and a medical man whom we can really trust, Harry Howard at Paris, and the best letters for every other place, which we will consult Lord Eskdale about, I think the danger will not be extreme. 'I have no wish to see Paris, said Lord Montacute, evidently embarrassed, and making a great effort to relieve his mind of some burthen. 'I have no wish to see Paris.
The school is now situated in Eskdale Terrace and its splendid playing fields stretch across to the North Road. One of the most interesting buildings in Newcastle is the Hancock Museum of Natural History, at Barras Bridge. It contains a matchless collection of birds, and some unique specimens of extinct species; also the original drawings of Bewick's British Birds, and other works of his.
He had altered the disposition of his property at a moment of great and general irritation and excitement; and had been too indolent, perhaps really too indisposed, which he was unwilling ever to acknowledge, to recur to a calmer and more equitable settlement. Lord Eskdale had been more frank with Sidonia, and had told him all about the refusal to become a candidate for Darlford against Mr.
And yet it was not so much good luck as due recognition of his sterling qualities by a wealthy and appreciative person. Long before, while he was still in Eskdale, one Mr. Pulteney, a man of social importance, who had a large house in the bleak northern valley, had asked his advice about the repairs of his own mansion.
'Male firmness is very often obstinacy: women have always something better, worth all qualities; they have tact. 'A compliment to the sex from so finished a critic as Lord Eskdale is appreciated. But at this moment the arrival of some guests terminated the conversation, and Lord Eskdale moved away, and approached a group which Lady Everingham was enlightening.
Harris, for whom he was waiting with anxious expectation, entered, and summoned him to the presence of Lord Eskdale, who, with a shrewd yet lounging air, which concealed his own foreboding perplexity, said, 'Well, Prevost, what is the matter? The people here been impertinent? Prevost shook his head. 'We never were in a house, my lord, where they were more obliging. It is something much worse.
But Telford was a man who could rise superior to such little accidents of habit or training; and as a matter of fact there is no other engineer to whom the rise of the present "iron age" in engineering work is more directly and immediately to be attributed than to himself. Meanwhile, the Eskdale pioneer did not forget his mother.
Rigby; 'they represented a principle. 'Nothing else, certainly, said Lucian Gay. 'And what principle? inquired Sidonia. 'The principle of nomination. 'That is a practice, not a principle, said Sidonia. 'Is it a practice that no longer exists? 'You think then, said Lord Eskdale, cutting in before Rigby, 'that the Reform Bill has done us no harm?
'Which I hold of divine institution, and which should be under the immediate influence of the Holy Spirit, said Tancred, dropping his eyes, and colouring still more as he found himself already trespassing on that delicate province of theology which always fascinated him, but which it had been intimated to him by Lord Eskdale that he should avoid.
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