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This business of Bromley so delights me; and finding you agree with me about Lord Courtown, I was confident as to your sentiments on that point. But some people take such strange ideas into their heads! To be sure, to be sure, the predominant interest, mine, that is to say ours, Vivian, is the predominant interest.
There was a buzz of admiration when the flattering music ceased; the Marquess smiled triumphantly, as if to say, "Didn't I tell you he was a monstrous clever fellow?" and the whole business seemed settled. Lord Courtown gave in a bumper, "Mr. Vivian Grey, and success to his maiden speech!" and Vivian replied by proposing "The New Union!"
Independently of all these periodical visitors, the house was full of permanent ones. There were the Viscount and Viscountess Courtown and their three daughters, and Lord and Lady Beaconsfield and their three sons, and Sir Berdmore and Lady Scrope, and Colonel Delmington of the Guards, and Lady Louisa Manvers and her daughter Julia.
Grey's abilities, would certainly support him to the utmost." "He can do anything," said the Marquess. "He is a surprising clever man!" said Lord Courtown. "He is a surprising clever man!" echoed Lord Beaconsfield. "Stop, my Lords," said Vivian; "your good opinion deserves my gratitude, but these important matters do indeed require a moment's consideration.
So large as she is, it does not at all suit her. I suppose it's a favourite colour." "Dear Miss Graves, you are always so insinuating. What can Miss Graves mean; eh! Dr. Sly?" A Lord Burleigh shake of the head. "Cynthia Courtown seems as lively as ever," said Miss Gusset. "Yes, lively enough; but I wish her manner was less brusque." "Brusque, indeed! you may well say so.
I am to be in the next Noctes; I forget the words of the chorus exactly, but Courtown is to rhyme with port down, or something of that kind, and then they are to dash their glasses over their heads, give three cheers, and adjourn to whisky-toddy and the Chaldee chamber. How delightful! "The Prima Donnas are at Cheltenham, looking most respectable.
But as for Courtown, or Beaconsfield, or fifty other offended men, if it can be shown to them that their interest is to be your Lordship's friend, trust me, that ere six months are over, they will have pledged their troth.
also George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, 4 vols. 8vo, Lond. 1843-4. Alexander, tenth Earl of Home, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch. Charles, second son of Archibald Lord Douglas. James Thomas, Viscount Stopford, afterwards fourth Earl of Courtown, and his wife, Lady Charlotte, sister of the then Duke of Buccleuch, at that time still in his minority.
"I should as soon have expected you to have given us Lucifer!" said Lord Courtown. "Or the present Secretary!" said Lord Beaconsfield. "Or yourself," said Sir Berdmore. "And does any one maintain that Frederick Cleveland is not capable of driving out a much stronger Government than he will have to cope with?" demanded the Marquess with a rather fierce air. "We do not deny Mr.
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