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Next to the prince, on his right, stands Viscount Sidney, the lord chamberlain, who calls off each detachment as it approaches "Austrian ambassador," "the Spanish minister," "the United States minister," etc. The prince shakes hands with the head of the embassy or mission, and bows to the secretaries.
And as the two gentlemen partake of that exhilarating liquor, the elder confides gaily to his guest the reason why he prefers taking coffee at the hotel to the coffee at the great Cafe of the Redoute, with a duris urgens in rebus egestass! pronounced in the true French manner. Clive was greatly amused by the gaiety of the Viscount after his misfortunes and his Moscow; and thought that one of Mr.
He was benighted in the forest, and was very much put to it to find his way again to his sister's the Duchess of Mercoeur; he arrived there at break of day, and was extremely at a loss what account to give of his absence, but he made out the matter as well as he could, and returned that very day to Paris with the Viscount.
"But, Pasquale Solara, I know you!" exclaimed the Viscount. "We have met in good time and in a fit place! The opportunity for which I have long and impatiently waited has at length arrived! You shall feel the crushing weight of my vengeance! You shall answer to me for your despicable, your unnatural crimes!
I leave worthy Tiller to settle balances between us; and so, I take my leave. Master Alderman a word at parting Does the Viscount Cornbury still tarry in the Provinces?" "Like a fixture. There is not a mercantile house in the colony more firmly established." "There are unsettled affairs between us. A small premium would buy the obligations "
I further think, that the committee and report were ex parte ones, upon which no legislative measures ought to have been founded. But what I chiefly complain of is this, that before the noble viscount put this speech into the mouth of her majesty, he did not give us full and fair information to guide us as to what we ought to do.
I sent another to your Grace from Dunblane with the reasons of my leaving Edinburgh. I know not if it be come to your hands." The letter was read to the Convention on the following day, and on Saturday, March 30th, John Graham, Viscount of Dundee, was proclaimed traitor with all the usual ceremonies.
He married Anne, eldest daughter of Arthur Hill Trevor, first Viscount Duncannon, by whom he had six sons and two daughters. The Earl was a man of accomplished tastes; he had travelled, adopted dilettante habits, and expended more money in the decoration of his mansion and demesne than his fortune could well bear.
Here Claudia begged leave to retire from the stand; but of course she was not permitted to do so; the Queen's Solicitor had not done with her yet. She was required to relate the incidents of that evening when the valet Frisbie was dragged from his hiding-place in her boudoir by the Viscount Vincent. And amid fiery blushes Claudia detailed all the circumstances of that scene.
"Our dear abbe has told you that the viscount is in prison on account of some youthful debts, a hundred thousand francs or so. If you could lend them to him I would secure you on my farm at Bordieres." "We will talk of that, madame, when I have brought your son back to you if you will allow me to be your emissary in the matter."
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