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Putney Giles had reported, but very pretty, with radiant complexions, sunny blue eyes, and flaxen looks. Their dimples and white shoulders and small feet and hands were much admired. Mr. Giles also returned with Apollonia, and, at length, also appeared the rival of Lord Carisbrooke, his grace of Brecon.
The grandest exhibitions, says Sir R. Murchison, of the Old Red Sandstone in England and Wales appear in the escarpments of the Black Mountains and in the Fans of Brecon and Carmarthen, the one 2862, and the other 2590 feet above the sea.
And the duchess too, your friend's mamma, who thinks you so good, and that it is so fortunate for her son to have such a companion?" "As for Lady St. Jerome, she believes in every thing," said Lothair; "and it is no compliment that she believes in me. As for my friend's mamma, her ideal character, according to you, is the Duke of Brecon, and I cannot pretend to compete with him.
The truth is, the duke, though absolute and hard to men, could be soft and deferential to women, and such an exception to a general disposition has a charm. It was said, also, that he had, when requisite, a bewitching smile. If there were any thing or any person in the world that St. Aldegonde hated more than another, it was the Duke of Brecon. Why St.
He may please the duchess, but I cannot say the Duke of Brecon is a sort of man I admire." "Well, he is no great favorite of mine," said Lady Clanmorne; "I think him overbearing and selfish, and I should not like at all to be his wife." "What do you think of Lady Corisande?" said Lothair. "I admire her more than any girl in society, and I think she will be thrown away on the Duke of Brecon.
Jeromes will be here to-morrow," continued Lothair, "and the Montairys and the St. Aldegondes. I have half an idea that Bertram and Carisbrooke and Hugo Bohun will be here to-night Duke of Brecon on Thursday; and that, I think, is all, except an American lady and gentleman, whom, I think, you will like great friends of mine; I knew them this year at Oxford, and the were very kind to me.
'They say he is wonderfully taken with the beauteous daughter of the house. 'I will back the Duke of Brecon against him, said one of his companions. 'He raved about her at White's yesterday. 'Hem! 'The end is not so near as all that, said a third wassailer. 'I do not know that, said Hugo Bohun. 'It is a family that marries off quickly.
The Braose family continued to hold Gower, but the rest of their possessions passed to other houses Brecon to the Bohuns of Hereford, Elvael to Mortimer, Abergavenny to Hastings, Builth first to Mortimer and then to the Crown. Glamorgan, during our period, was attached to the earldom of Gloucester.
It bears the name of Merthyr Tydvil, which signifies the Martyr Tydvil, because in the old time a Christian British princess was slain in the locality which it occupies. Tydvil was the daughter of Brychan, Prince of Brecon, surnamed Brycheiniawg, or the Breconian, who flourished in the fifth century and was a contemporary of Hengist.
Resolved that law not force was henceforth to settle disputes in the march, Edward summoned a novel court at Ystradvellte, in Brecon, wherein a jury from the neighbouring shires and liberties was to decide the case between the two earls in the presence of the chief marchers.
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