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Even Lord Exmoor himself, who was a hunting man, without any pretence to that stupid rubbish about taste, did not care for the hopeless exterior of Dunbude Castle: he frankly admitted that the place was altogether too doosid artificial for the line of country.
"Quite pwomising," said the Adonis in the baggy coat, silent until now. "Yes, he has blossomed all at once. He talks of going abroad." "Bettah stay at home," said the young gentleman, languidly. "I've been thwough all the gallewies. It's always the same stowy, always the same old humbugs to be admired, always a doosid boah."
Dora who had but five thousand pounds, Flora who had nothing, and Leonora who had red hair, were going to be married, and nobody had come for Blanche Amory. "You judge wisely about the world, and about your position, my dear Miss Blanche," the major said. "The prince don't marry nowadays, as you say: unless the princess has a doosid deal of money in the funds, or is a lady of his own rank.
Begad, let us be thankful," said the old fellow, with a shudder, "that we are out of the business, and leave it to those it concerns." "I hope to Heaven she'll tell him," said Pen. "Begad, she'll take her own course," said the old man. "Miss Amory is a dev'lish wide-awake girl, sir, and must play her own cards; and I'm doosid glad you are out of it doosid glad, begad. Who's this smoking?
"Begad, sir," whispers the old Major to me, "intellect may be a doosid fine thing, but in my opinion, a Marquisate and eighteen or twenty thousand a year I should say the Farintosh property, with the Glenlivat estate and the Roy property in England, must be worth nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure and I remember when this young man's father was only Tom Roy, of the 42nd, with no hope of succeeding to the title, and doosidly out at elbows too I say what does the bankeress mean by chattering about intellect?
The major had a favorable opinion of September in London from that time forward, and declared at his clubs and in society that the dead season in town was often pleasant, doosid pleasant, begad. He used to go home to his lodgings in Bury-street of a night, wondering that it was already so late, and that the evening had passed away so quietly.
I believe if I did it once when I was a young fillah I did it fifty times." "Did what?" "Well breathed free on hearing that a girl wasn't engaged. Doesn't matter how doosid little they know of her only seen her in the Park on horseback, p'r'aps they'll eat a lot more lunch if they're told she's still in the market. Fact!" Miss Dickenson said that no doubt Mr.
Dora who had but five thousand pounds, Flora who had nothing, and Leonora who had red hair, were going to be married, and nobody had come for Blanche Amory! "You judge wisely about the world, and about your position, my dear Miss Blanche," the Major said. "The Prince don't marry nowadays, as you say: unless the Princess has a doosid deal of money in the funds, or is a lady of his own rank.
The Major had a favourable opinion of September in London from that time forward, and declared at his clubs and in society that the dead season in town was often pleasant, doosid pleasant, begad. He used to go home to his lodgings in Bury Street of a night, wondering that it was already so late, and that the evening had passed away so quickly.
She knows me as well as she knows King Charles at Charing Cross, and a doosid deal better, and yet for a whole season she will drop me pass me by, as if there was no such person in the world. Well, sir, what do I do? I never see her. I give you my word I am never conscious of her existence; and if I meet her at dinner, I'm no more aware of her than the fellows in the play are of Banquo.
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