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Almost within a stone's throw of my chamber this man and his aged father the latter now a hopeless paralytic live together in the ruins of their old home. Year by year the river, by constant cavings, has swallowed nearly all its extensive grounds, yet beyond the low-browed Spanish cottage that clings close within the new levee, "the ghost of a garden" fronts the river.
The Duke replied, "That he had been perfectly well;" and added, "that the necessity of attending to the public business before the House, as well as the time occupied by a late journey to Scotland, had rendered him less assiduous in paying his duty at the levee and drawing-room than he could have desired."
Fox's political principles The fifth Duke of Bedford A little dinner A debate in the Commons The attack on Lord George Germaine Beckford An evening at Brooks's Pitt and his friends Possible changes in the Cabinet Faro at White's A story of the Duke of Richmond An address to the King A levee Play and politics at Brooks's Government and the Opposition Selwyn and his offices The position of the King Fears of change of administration The King's objections to Fox Probable debates Political prospects Debates and divisions The fate of the King's friends Illness of Lord Morpeth Annoyance of Selwyn at the state of affairs Fox and Selwyn Fall of Lord North A new Ministry Official changes Fox and Carlisle Carlisle's position Morpeth and Mie Mie.
Over the shrubbery I can see the white-painted gates leading to the mansion, and outside of these runs the Levee road. Although the foliage hinders me from a full view of the road itself, I see at intervals the people passing along it.
An accident which occurred one morning at his military levee, gave at once a new turn to his mode of life, and a fresh impetus to the advance of his fortunes.
This was an Ambition below the Greatness and Candour of his Mind. And it appears from the very Nature of Things, that there cannot be any thing effectually dispatched in the Distraction of a Publick Levee: but the whole seems to be a Conspiracy of a Set of Servile Slaves, to give up their own Liberty to take away their Patron's Understanding. No. 194. Friday, October 12, 1711. Steele.
He began to flag with Miss Ward, the dowager's niece, and was glad when the refined Beauchamp, at her other side, took her up, and entertained her with Lady Carrickmore's ball and the masquerade, and the last levee, and the withdrawing-room.
The countess took it up and rang. The steward answered the summons, and begged to know what her highness was pleased to command. "Let the palace-doors be thrown open, that the people may know how little I fear their dislike. Send all the lackeys out, and let them announce to the court that to-day I hold a special levee, and that my rooms will be opened to visitors at nine this evening.
Meantime the State was overflowed, the Levee boards tied up by political chicanery, and nothing done to relieve the poor people, now fed by the charity of the Government and charitable associations of the North. "I say now, unequivocally, that Governor Wells is a political trickster and a dishonest man.
Truly, a fitting couple to seek the bayou banks. They climbed the levee that stretched a feeble check to waters that seldom rise, and on the other side of the embankment, at the brink of the river, she sat on a log, and impatiently pulled off the little cap she wore.
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