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Nan instantly conjectured that she must be a dowager-duchess, for she thought that no one but a dowager-duchess would dare to wear such a thing. Sir George paused as he passed them. 'Hillo, here's my sweetheart. I told you I wanted to drink a glass of wine with you. Doing your duty, Frank King? When's your leave out? 'I am going down to Portsmouth to-morrow, Sir George.
But the fine lines of humour about the wings of the sensitive nostrils and the corners of the large finely-modelled mouth quivered a little. "Drink a little more orange-flower water, dear, and never tell me who the man is. I do not wish to hear. I decline to hear." The Dowager-Duchess lost her temper. "That is because you know already, and despise money that is made of jam.
"I hope it's not altogether too late." "The choice is so small out here, isn't it? Now, according to Tomes, Mr. Medland ought to marry a duchess well, a dowager-duchess but there isn't one." "I should hardly have thought the Premier quite the man for a duchess," said Coxon, rather superciliously. "Well, I like him much better than most dukes I've seen. Why do you shake your head?"
Then I remember how it came to me all at once the whole meaning of it. Till now, blind men had been other people. Now I was to be one myself.... Say something!... I don't like my own voice speaking alone.... there is no one else in the room, is there?" "Not a soul. And nobody will come. The dowager-duchess is having tea in her own room, and all the others will be late."
The funeral of the Dowager-Duchess took place at seven o'clock on the morning of the 27th September, at Gotha, and was attended by the gentlemen of the party, while the ladies in deep mourning, wearing the pointed veils, were present at a commemorative service in the Schloss Kirche at Coburg.
"He has boiled jam into sweetness for the whole civilised world," said the most influential and awful of Lord Castleclare's seven sisters, a Dowager-Duchess who was Lady-in-Waiting, and exhaled the choicest essence of the Middle Victorian era.
The poems of John Hopkins are dedicated to this Dowager-duchess, who, when they were published, had already for two years been the wife of Sir Thomas Hanmer. At the age of twelve, and probably in Dublin, Hopkins met the mysterious lady who animates these volumes under the name of Amasia. Who was Amasia? That, alas! even the volubility of her lover does not reveal.
He twiddled the ring nervously as he said: "She has gone into Lenten Retreat at a Convent in Kensington. I arah! I do not think it would be advisable to disturb salutary and seasonable meditations with arah! worldly matters at this present moment." "Fiddle-faddle!" said the Dowager-Duchess sharply. Lord Castleclare lifted his melancholy arched eyebrows. "'Fiddle-faddle, my dear Constantia?"
Although Lambert Simnel's enterprise had miscarried, Margaret, dowager-duchess of Burgundy, did not despair of seeing the crown of England wrested from the House of Lancaster, and determined at least to disturb King Henry's government if she could not subvert it.
The Prince, in announcing the event to the Dowager-Duchess of Coburg, says: "The little boy was received by his sisters with jubilates. 'Now we are just as many as the days of the week, was the cry, and then a bit of a struggle arose as to who was to be Sunday. Out of well-bred courtesy the honour was conceded to the new-comer."
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