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But next imagine that the sovereign can raise to the rank of "peerage or baronetage" some favoured person whose family does not yet figure in Debrett. Such a man is then entitled to put his name on the list of candidates for the necessary under-secretaryship, and, when the sovereign reviews that list, he marks the candidate as nominated or recommended by himself. So he passes into the Senate.
To your right-minded mother, all's well that ends in the Wedding March and Debrett! Most satisfactory to find that the father was a Baronet; and Mr Sinclair was the eldest son! Could anything be more gratifying to her maternal pride in this beautiful, difficult daughter of hers?
Perhaps on the principle that obscurity increases the natural size of objects and is an element of the sublime, the colonel did not too accurately define his relations "the Digbies:" he let it be casually understood that they were the Digbies to be found in Debrett.
You should have seen Harrie Hunsden, as I saw her the other day, and you would surely recant your heresy about ladies and horse-flesh." "Is Harrie Hunsden a lady?" "Certainly. Don't you know her? She is Captain Hunsden's only daughter Hunsden, of Hunsden Hall, one of your oldest Devon families. You'll find them duly chronicled in Burke and Debrett.
Debrett, as Cecelia Anne teetered up and down on her heels and toes before him, read the list again, counted up the total expenditure and admitted that his ward had got remarkably good value for her money. "But what are all these 'tickets, my dear?" he asked her. "Eden Musee," answered Cecelia Anne. And the very thought of it drew her to her mother's knee.
"They'll run themselves to death," commented Debrett, who knew his young America, "and is Jimmie to be one of the contestants?" "He is," replied Hawtry, "it's a 'free for all' event and even Cecelia Anne may start if Jimmie allows it. She's not thinking much about that though. You see, Jimmie has gone into training and she's his trainer.
Bragg had also a sort of City or monetary tariff of politeness a tariff that was oftener called in requisition than the 'Debrett' one, in Mr. Puffington's country.
Maur, while Millicent Porthcawl had actually met him in the Bournemouth hotel! these and many another vivid index pointed the path of knowledge to one so well versed as she in the intricacies of Debrett. The very attributes which she had taken for an impertinent aping of the manners of society had shouted his identity into her deaf ears time and again.
The Head of the House of Coombe was not a title to be found in Burke or Debrett. It was a fine irony of the Head's own and having been accepted by his acquaintances was not infrequently used by them in their light moments in the same spirit. The peerage recorded him as a Marquis and added several lesser attendant titles.
Late as it was he accompanied her to Shaftesbury Avenue, and they parted tenderly after having come to an agreement about the next evening. By discreet inquiry Mr. Gammon procured an introduction to "Debrett," who supplied him with a great deal of information.
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