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Have any of these English foplings and lordlings, with more peers in their pedigrees than pennies in their pockets, turned your head? If so, it is time for me to take you home." Cora did not reply. Only the night before, at the ball given by the Marchioness of Netherby, the Duke of Cumbervale had proposed to her, and had been referred to her grandfather.
We hold these things to be wrong to be a sort of crime against manhood. In a measure we are Puritan; not altogether in a religious sense, but in a moral and social one, certainly. We regard our horny hands with pride, and talk about "honest labour" with something more than a virtuous glow. We are apt to be rather down on city foplings and soft-handed respectabilities.
Learnt to dress as foplings dress, and to think as foplings think! 'He is a very nice young fellow! said Sir Reginald kindly; 'we are all fond of him; only we think for his own sake it would be better if he took life more seriously. 'He must be made to take life seriously, replied the spinster sternly. 'Yes, he is very nice that is the worst of it; if he were nasty no one would tolerate him.
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