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"No, your lordship, I have not joined them, but I must say I admire their resolution in giving up a luxury to maintain a great principle." "As for myself," said Mr.
"Well, my lord," replied the Antiquary, "I will endeavour to entertain your ears at least, since I cannot banquet your palate. What I am about to read to your lordship relates to the upland glens." Lord Glenallan, though he would rather have recurred to the subject of his own uncertainties, was compelled to make a sign of rueful civility and acquiescence.
"I wonder why you hate him so," he said softly. He saw the sudden scarlet flame upon her cheeks, the heavy frown that descended upon her brow. He had made her very angry, he judged. But there was no explosion. She recovered. "Hate him? Lord! What a thought! I don't regard the fellow at all." "Then ye should, ma'am." His lordship spoke his thought frankly. "He's worth regarding.
A Frenchman goes out, upon a managed horse, and capers in the field, and no more thinks of leaping a hedge than of mounting a breach. Lord Powerscourt laid a wager, in France, that he would ride a great many miles in a certain short time. The French academicians set to work, and calculated that, from the resistance of the air, it was impossible. His lordship however performed it.
Temple his lordship's request, that he would obtain what farther information he could relative to the private seal, in whatever way he thought most prudent. His lordship trusted entirely to his discretion Mr. Temple was engaged with other business.
He inclined, he said, to the opinion that Parliament ought to have been called together sooner, but it was objected that such a course would have the effect of bringing the Irish proprietors to England at a time when their presence at home was much needed. "God forbid," exclaimed his lordship, "that I should be instrumental in bringing the Irish proprietors over to this country."
Selwyn, "would you wish to degrade the habitation of your friend, by admitting into it the insipid company of the upper regions?" "What do you do with yourself this evening?" said his Lordship, turning to me. "I shall be at home, my Lord." "O, -e;-propos,-where are you?" "Young ladies, my Lord," said Mrs. Selwyn, "are no where."
"Be it so; but you must come back to me for another week, after finishing your visit," said the Warden. "After all, it was an idle fancy in me that there could be any danger. His Lordship has good English blood in his veins, and it would take oceans and rivers of Italian treachery to wash out the sterling quality of it.
'Certainly not, Best, was the reply. 'I am exceedingly displeased that my nephew has behaved so ill to you, and I shall let him know it. 'His lordship will give it to him hot and strong, the young upstart, muttered Best to himself with great satisfaction, as he watched the languid pace quicken to overtake the boy, who had gone on with his sister.
She had not risen to giving a couple of fingers to a person whom she considered her inferior; but she was inclined to snub Mr. Hammond as rather a presuming young man. 'Well, Jack, what do you think of my beauty sister? asked his lordship, as he chose his cue from the well-filled rack.
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