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"It's been dull at the mansion-house," she said, "and I wanted to get out of it. It's too lonely there, there's nobody to hate since Dick's gone." The Doctor laughed good-naturedly, as if this were an amusing bit of pleasantry, but he lifted his head and dropped his eyes a little, so as to see her through his spectacles.
"I tell you, that through the Duchess of Marlborough has this Northumbrian cousin of mine become a crony of Lady Ashton, the Keeper's wife, or, I may say, the Lord Keeper's Lady Keeper, and she has favoured Lady Blenkensop with a visit on her return from London, and is just now at her old mansion-house on the banks fo the Wansbeck.
He had, to give him his due, the appearance of an extraordinary fine gentleman; he was tall, well-shaped, and had an extraordinary address; talked as naturally of his park and his stables, of his horses, his gamekeepers, his woods, his tenants, and his servants, as if we had been in the mansion-house, and I had seen them all about me.
"It's been dull at the mansion-house," she said, "and I wanted to get out of it. It's too lonely there, there's nobody to hate since Dick's gone." The Doctor laughed good-naturedly, as if this were an amusing bit of pleasantry, but he lifted his head and dropped his eyes a little, so as to see her through his spectacles.
He contrived to make himself heir of Linne without the disagreeable ceremony of 'telling down the good red gold. Miss Bertram no sooner heard this painful, and of late unexpected, intelligence than she proceeded in the preparations she had already made for leaving the mansion-house immediately. Mr.
But it must be remembered that Edmondstone was a man of consequence in the Jacobite party, as he carried the royal standard of James VII. at the battle of Sheriffmuir, and also, that he was near the door of his own mansion-house, and probably surrounded by his friends and adherents. Rob Roy, however, suffered in reputation for retiring under such a threat.
Poor E.M.! Poor everybody that sighs for earthly remembrance in a planet with a core of fire and a crust of fossils! Such was the Dudley mansion-house, for it kept its ancient name in spite of the change in the line of descent.
Marmaduke bore this deformity in his dwelling with great good-nature, and soon contrived, by his own improvements, to give an air of respectability and comfort to his place of residence. Still, there was much of in congruity, even immediately about the mansion-house.
"From Bank, Change, Mansion-house, Guildhall, Throgmorton, and Threadneedle, From London-stone, and London wall, When City housewife's wheedle To Brunswick, Russell, Bedford Squares, And Portland-place, their spouses, Anxious to give themselves great airs Of fashion in great houses, Then Gog shall start, and Magog shall Tremble upon his pedestal."
There was a good deal of interest felt, as has been said, in the lonely condition of Dudley Venner in that fine mansion-house of his, and with that strange daughter, who would never be married, as many people thought, in spite of all the stories.
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