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"Now, let's see where we are," he said, as they went round to Portman Square. "We do know for a certainty that Jacob Herapath had a transaction of some sort with one Luigi Dimambro, on November 12th, and that it resulted in his handing, or sending, the said Luigi a cheque for three thousand guineas.
I am proud of what I am. Don't misunderstand me. I am a Portman! Her blood is in me her mind, her soul. But I am not all Portman. Suppose, David suppose that my father were to come back some day. We know what he is what he was. Perhaps the world may have forgotten, but suppose that he reminds the world of the fact that he is my father " "Christine!
Lord Delacour, in the morning, when he was sober, retained but a confused idea of the events of the preceding night; but he made an awkwardly good-natured apology to Miss Portman for his intrusion, and for the disturbance he had occasioned, which, he said, must be laid to the blame of Lord Studley's admirable burgundy.
"That hasn't quite struck me," replied Triffitt. "How is it just as obvious?" "Because whoever went to Portman Square went in old Herapath's fur-trimmed coat and his slouch hat, and the fur trimmed coat and slouch hat were found in the office," answered Carver. "It's absolutely plain, that. I put it like this.
Fitzgibbon's description of the crisis; but then it was understood that Mr. Fitzgibbon was given to romancing. The News about Mr. Mildmay and Sir Everard Fitzgibbon and Phineas started together from Pall Mall for Portman Square, as both of them had promised to call on Lady Laura, but Fitzgibbon turned in at Brooks's as they walked up St. James's Square, and Phineas went on by himself in a cab.
S. of Taunton, which represents in its name an alliance between a Portman and the heiress of the Orchards. The most noteworthy features of its small Perp. church is a Norm. Othery, a parish on the Sedgemoor plain, 3 m. N.E. of Athelney Station. Its church has quite a number of interesting features.
"You always choose the most charitable reason, Betsy," cried the Rector. "A matron with a son grown up she would never think of marrying again." "You only think men should marry again, Doctor Portman, answered his lady, bridling up. "You stupid old woman," said the Doctor, "when I am gone, you shall marry whomsoever you like.
"You have acted in the most prudent manner possible, Miss Portman," said her ladyship, as she went on sealing her notes, "by speaking at once to me of this strange, scandalous, absurd report. Do you act from your aunt Stanhope's advice, or entirely from your own judgment and knowledge of my character?"
Turner shewed me at the play my Lady Portman, who has grown out of my knowledge. 16th. Up, and to the office all the morning, dined at home with my people, and so all the afternoon till night at the office busy, and so home to supper and to bed. But the latter, talking of publick things, told me, as Mr.
Perhaps it was best as it was, best that she was childless. She might no doubt have married a third time. Sir Seymour Portman, a bachelor for her sake, would have asked nothing better than to become her husband. And there were other middle-aged and old men who would gladly have linked themselves with her, and who did not scruple to tell her so.
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