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Eglington offered to introduce David to some notable people, but he said that he must go he was fatigued after his journey. He had no wish to be lionised. As he left the salon, the band was playing a tune that made him close his eyes, as though against something he would not see. The band in Kaid's Palace had played it that night when he had killed Foorgat Bey.
If he played in studios he was idolised. If he played at small concerts in unknown halls he was received with rapture. But he was never lionised.
Yet, however much the thing was present in his mind he gave no expression to it until the very end, and meanwhile he went to and fro from Banghurst's magnificent laboratories, and was interviewed and lionised, and wore good clothes, and ate good food, and lived in an elegant flat, enjoying a very abundant feast of such good, coarse, wholesome Fame and Success as a man, starved for all his years as he had been starved, might be reasonably expected to enjoy.
The successful novelist visited Europe a few years after this 'sign and seal' of his literary renown, and spent a considerable period among the principalities and powers of Old-World Christendom. In Paris and London especially he was lionised to the top of his bent.
Owing to the sudden success of a picture which scandalised his trusty friends and the beauty of his wife, the model for the picture, Jack woke up one morning and found himself famous. They were lionised. Mrs.
He was pleased by a requisition that he should stand yet again for the Poetry Professorship, though of course he did not accede to it. He was much lionised, and seems to have enjoyed himself very much during his stay, the Crown Princess being specially gracious to him.
They luckily took their full-dress uniforms with them; and having lionised the city in palanquins all the day, they found themselves in the evening at a magnificent ball, given by one of the principal officers of the Company's Civil Service. The officers of the "Thisbe" stopped near the entrance to admire the brilliant spectacle.
However, her thanks to you, sir, are not the less fervent for your kind intercession in her behalf, and with highest regards, I am, with great respect, "Your obedient servant, "R. E. Lee." The building of Robert's house The General as a railroad delegate Lionised in Baltimore Calls on President Grant Visits Alexandria Declines to be interviewed Interested in his grandson The Washington portraits
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