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Feudalism they renounced for the clan. Each of the great English families that first landed in the island had formed a new sept, and the clans of the Geraldines, De Courcys, and others, were admitted into full copartnership with the old Milesian septs. This the two great families of the Burkes in Connaught called their chiefs McWilllams Either and McWilliams Oughter.
He had then remained for a couple of months in London, going through all the society which the de Courcys were able to open to him. And it was true that a certain belle of the season, of that season and some others, had been captivated for the tenth time by the silken sheen of his long beard.
He had always, however, been taught to look to his cousins, the de Courcys, as men with whom it would be very expedient that he should be intimate; he therefore showed no offence, but changed the conversation. "Shall you hunt with the Barsetshire this season, John? I hope you will; I shall." "Well, I don't know. It's very slow. It's all tillage here, or else woodland.
Think, too, how angry Lady Arabella will be if you are absent on such an errand as this." "To hear you talk, Mary, one would think that you were going to Silverbridge yourself." "Perhaps I am." "If I did not go with you, some of the other fellows would. John, or George " "Good gracious, Frank! Fancy either of the Mr de Courcys walking home with me!"
"Is Frank to go back to Cambridge, Arabella?" said the countess to her sister-in-law, speaking across her nephew. "So his father seems to say." "Is it not a waste of time?" asked the countess. "You know I never interfere," said the Lady Arabella; "I never liked the idea of Cambridge myself at all. All the de Courcys were Christ Church men; but the Greshams, it seems, were always at Cambridge."
Why! the squire himself for a many long year had been contented to come home with a pair of horses; and four were never seen in the place, except when the de Courcys came to Greshamsbury, or Lady Arabella with all her daughters returned from her hard-fought metropolitan campaigns.
He had heard from an indubitable source that Crosbie had engaged himself to a niece of a squire with whom he had been staying near Guestwick, a girl without any money; and Mr Butterwell, in his wisdom, had thought his friend Crosbie to be rather a fool for his pains. But now he was going to marry one of the de Courcys! Mr Butterwell was rather at his wits' ends.
Montgomerie Dobbs and Fowler Pratt both stood by him, giving him, let us hope, some assurance that he was not absolutely deserted by all the world, that he had not given himself up, bound hand and foot, to the de Courcys, to be dealt with in all matters as they might please.
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