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'Where's your husband? She told him her sad suspicion that Jim had run away from her. The Baron reflected, and inquired a few other particulars of her late life. Then he said: 'You and I must find him.
Then turning to our marshal, he said, "Take Jack into Baron Pollock's room" the Baron had just gone in to lunch, for he was always punctual to a minute "and ask him to give him a mutton-chop." And when, five minutes later, my lord came in, the Baron was enjoying his chop, and I was eating my lord's.
The memory of Dame Durden was still fresh within him, and it was in fulfilment of his scheme of revenge for that that he had united with Sir Ronald Bury to bring the baron to book for his misdeeds, and was now in London. Why should he not wreak his vengeance upon Sir Thomas Stanley, and then at once accomplish the work on which his heart was set?
The carriage drove rapidly off, and the Baron, after he had taken a confused and embarrassed leave of his young friends got into his own, severely mortified, as his looks shewed, notwithstanding his attempts at a forced composure. When the young counsellor and the officer were on their way back to the city, the former said after a pause, "What was that?
In politics an opportunist, opposing and supporting Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade. Premier of England, 1834-5, 1841-6. Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, 1821, and for thirty-eight years a judge. Son of Dr. Pigot of Mallow and one of the founders of the attempted National Whig Party in the period 1820-30. He was a cultured man and an upright judge.
BARON. "Post-obits on sound security cost more to buy up, however healthy the obstructing relative may be." RANDAL. "I should hope that there are not many sons who can calculate, in cold blood, on the death of their fathers." BARON. "Ha, ha! He is young, our friend Randal; eh, sir?"
"Don't mention it, don't mention it, madame," answered the Baron. "It is I who am pleased at having had an opportunity to show you my little army."
Nay, in spite of all the pain, grief, and weariness, these were times when both dreaded any change, and the full recovery, when not only would the loss of Friedel be every moment freshly brought home to his brother, but when Ebbo would go in quest of his father. For on this the young Baron had fixed his mind as a sacred duty, from the moment he had seen that life was to be his lot.
Donald even believed that Waverley himself was at bottom in the Stuart interest, which seemed confirmed by his long visit to the Jacobite Baron of Bradwardine.
I put on my jacket again. "Where are you going?" I asked sullenly. "No nowhere ... I can't understand what made you take off your jacket like that ..." "What have you done with the Baron to-day?" I went on. "The Count can't be out at sea on a day like this." "Glahn, I just wanted to tell you something ..." I interrupted her: "May I beg you to convey my respects to the Duke?"
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