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It is this: let him consider that 'dukes, and lords, and noble princes, eat, drink, talk, move, exactly the same as any other class of civilized people nay, the very subjects in conversation are, for the most part, the same in all sets only, perhaps, they are somewhat more familiarly and easily treated than among the lower orders, who fancy rank is distinguished by pomposity, and that state affairs are discussed with the solemnity of a tragedy that we are always my lording and my ladying each other that we ridicule commoners, and curl our hair with Debrett's Peerage."
There would be a Debrett's "Peerage," and a Burke's "Landed Gentry," and a volume of "Etiquette of Smart Society" on the library shelves, if there was nothing else; and in the basket on the hall table the visiting cards of any titled beings of the family's acquaintance would invariably rise to the top like cream.
It is this: let him consider that 'dukes, and lords, and noble princes, eat, drink, talk, move, exactly the same as any other class of civilized people nay, the very subjects in conversation are, for the most part, the same in all sets only, perhaps, they are somewhat more familiarly and easily treated than among the lower orders, who fancy rank is distinguished by pomposity, and that state affairs are discussed with the solemnity of a tragedy that we are always my lording and my ladying each other that we ridicule commoners, and curl our hair with Debrett's Peerage."
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" Mr. Debrett's astonishment at this lullaby held him silent for some seconds. "You see, sir," Cecelia Anne explained, "if you can go to sleep thinking about that it shows your nerve. I can't. Not yet.
Debrett's Peerage was unimportant in the grave; breaches of social etiquette passed unnoticed there; the wagging of malicious tongues was stopped by dust. Her husband lingered at the grave-side after the others had departed. As he stood staring into the open grave, regardless of a lurking grave-digger waiting to fill it, he looked like a man whose part in the drama of life was Care.
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA; WER IST'S; QUI ÊTES-VOUS Corresponding works for America, Germany, and France. DEBRETT'S PEERAGE A repository of a great mass of facts concerning English families of historical distinction. WHITAKER'S ALMANAC Much miscellaneous information about the British empire and other countries. LIPPINCOTT'S NEW GAZETTEER A geographical dictionary of the world.
The AIDE finished pairing his couples. 'Mrs Gildea, you're to go in with the Warden of the University. Of course you know Dr Plumtree? Mr McKeith, the Governor will be so glad to meet you. Will you take in Lady Bridget O'Hara? She's not down yet. You see, he explained again to Mrs Gildea, 'we're strictly official to-night and Debrett's out of it. 'So am I, put in Colin McKeith.
I am sorry to be compelled to cast a slur upon the Literary profession, but observation shows me that it still contains within its ranks writers born and bred in, and moving amidst if, without offence, one may put it bluntly a purely middle-class environment: men and women to whom Park Lane will never be anything than the shortest route between Notting Hill and the Strand; to whom Debrett's Peerage gilt-edged and bound in red, a tasteful-looking volume ever has been and ever will remain a drawing- room ornament and not a social necessity.
What shadow of reason is there to suppose that there was not the ordinary proportion of barren marriages among the marriages contracted by the noblemen whose names are in Debrett's last edition?
Windham has signed a nonsensical association with Lord Mulgrave; and when I left town yesterday, I was informed that the Divan, as the meeting at Debrett's is called, were furious at an authentic advertisement from the Duke of Portland against Charles Fox's speech in the Whig Club, which no one before believed to be genuine, but which they now say Dr. Lawrence brought from Burlington-House.
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