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He showed what, indeed, the Whigs themselves knew uncommonly well that from a certain Earl Gower, who flourished in the eighteenth century, and was great-great-great-grandfather of the present Duke of Sutherland, are descended all the Levesons, Gowers, Howards, Cavendishes, Grosvenors, Russells, and Harcourts, who walk on the face of the earth. Truly a noble and a highly favoured progeny.
Miss Grosvenor has invited you, Ernest, and myself." "She just wants Ernest she's terribly fond of the men." "Well, did you ever see a normal girl who wasn't, and Mr Ernest is a man worth being fond of I dearly love him myself." "Pooh! I don't see anything nice about him," said Dawn aggressively. "But you'll come to tea, won't you?" "No, I can't. I never go to Grosvenors.
Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineaux, the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.
He showed what, indeed, the Whigs themselves knew uncommonly well that from John, Earl Gower, who died in 1754, descend all the Gowers, Levesons, Howards, Cavendishes, Grosvenors, Harcourts, and Russells, who walk on the face of the earth. Truly a noble and a highly favoured progeny. "They are our superiors," said Thackeray; "and that's the fact.
"Did you attend the Grosvenor dance?" asked the coroner. "No; the affair was only given for the debutantes of last fall and did not include married people," she explained. "It was a warm night and Colonel McIntyre asked Mr. Benjamin Clymer, who was dining with him, and me, to go for a motor ride, leaving Barbara at the Grosvenors' en route.
Why! that's where you and I are going to stay stay for a week or two isn't it, father, en route for Greylock and the experiments. You know the Grosvenors have invited us and they have a wonderful old place up there. Una's mother is carrying coals these days " Pemrose winked "coals of penitence in her heart for ever having sneered at your invention, Daddy." "Hot ones, are they? Well!
Roosevelt must have chuckled with a righteous exultation at such evidence as this that the Lord had delivered the Philistines into his hands; and his abomination of the Spoils System must have deepened when he saw its Grosvenors and its Gormans brazen out the lies he caught them telling.
Round the turrets, and in various parts of the parapets are shields, charged in relievo with the armorial bearings of the Grosvenor family, and of other ancient families that, by intermarriages, the Grosvenors are entitled to quarter with their own. The windows, which are "richly dight" with tracery, are of cast-iron, moulded on both sides, and grooved to receive the glass.
There's a vain elf in you somewhere, Pem, that sleeps in the shadow of the Wise Woman." "Maybe maybe, there's a nickum! That's Andrew's word, Andrew's word for an imp, a tomboy. He's the Grosvenors' Scotch chauffeur, you know, who talks with a thistle under his tongue. Well! nickum, or not!" the girl was a rosy weathercock again.
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