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Updated: June 12, 2025
The horizon was his fence, advancing and receding to attend him; all between was his proper range. He took his station on a taller hilltop and gave voice to his lordliness in a neigh that rang and re-rang down a hollow. Then he canted his head and listened. A bull bellowed an answer fainter than the whistle of a bird from the distance, and just on the verge of earshot trembled another sound.
"Madame," cried the baron, "I cannot imagine how you can presume " "Sir!" said Adrienne, reducing him to silence by a gesture of overwhelming lordliness, "I speak of you not to you. I wished to spend my income," she continued, "according to my own tastes. I embellished the retreat that I had chosen. Instead of ugly, ill-taught servants, I selected girls, pretty and well brought up, though poor.
"Oh, I've seen to that," said Christopher with the faintest suspicion of lordliness in his voice. "I wrote to the man I know at Maidenhead to have a boat ready a good one." Sam grinned. "My, what a head-piece we've got, to be sure." The other flushed a little. "It was really Cæsar who suggested it," he owned.
He looked furtively up and down the car, eyed the porter, who ignored him contemptuously and finally came back and demanded his sleeper ticket with a lordliness that Bi did not feel he could take from a negro. But somehow the ticket got tangled in his pocket, and Bi had a hard time finding it, which deepened his indignation at the porter. "I ain't takin' no sass from no one.
That lordliness is so ample that for even a small family the income I have named will be no more than biting poverty, there will be a pervading quality of struggle in this home to avoid work, to frame arrangements, to discover cheap, loyal servants of the old type, to discover six per cent. investments without risk, to interest influential connections in the prospects of the children.
Featured in almost faultless outline, of a character unconsciously, unaffectedly proclaiming its superior gravity among human masses, he was a planet destined to have many satellites and be satellite to none; an ego of genuine lordliness; a presence at once masterly and decorative.
"I'm sure as I shouldn't blame you if you had been a bit tempted. I know what that is! Well, sir, I'll say good-evening." "Good-evening, miss, and thank you very much," said Harry, rising as she rose. His manner had its old touch of lordliness. His friends criticised that sometimes; this young lady evidently approved. "You've no cause to thank me," said she, with an admiring look. "Yes, I have.
The first Jolyon Forsyte at all events the first we know anything of, and that would be your great-great-grandfather dwelt in the land of Dorset on the edge of the sea, being by profession an 'agriculturalist, as your great-aunt put it, and the son of an agriculturist farmers, in fact; your grandfather used to call them, 'Very small beer." He looked at Jolly to see how his lordliness was standing it, and with the other eye noted Holly's malicious pleasure in the slight drop of her brother's face.
Already in stature and strength a king among his fellows, taller than any, bigger than any, a mighty wrestler, a mighty hunter, an archer of the best, a knight who bore down rider after rider in the tourney, the young monarch combined with this bodily lordliness a largeness and versatility of mind which was to be the special characteristic of the age that had begun.
The first Jolyon Forsyte at all events the first we know anything of, and that would be your great-great-grandfather dwelt in the land of Dorset on the edge of the sea, being by profession an 'agriculturalist, as your great-aunt put it, and the son of an agriculturist farmers, in fact; your grandfather used to call them, 'Very small beer." He looked at Jolly to see how his lordliness was standing it, and with the other eye noted Holly's malicious pleasure in the slight drop of her brother's face.
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