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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Well, to tell the truth, with her train over her arm and her tulle lappets hanging down her back, she feels like a widow carrying a waterproof; but she thinks she looks like a duchess, and that is a very supporting thought." "Tell me, who is that beautiful woman with the tall soldierly man, coming in now?" said Farquhar. "Oh! those are the Le Mesuriers of Greystone; isn't she divine?
By the time you are fifty, with a family of half a dozen children, you have become comparatively impersonal as "father" or "mother." It is tacitly recognised that your life-work is finished, that your ambitions are accomplished or not, and that your hopes are at an end. The young Mesuriers, for example, were all eagerly hastening towards their several futures.
It was at once a fact and a fable concerning a happy little family of swallows, whose sudden tragedy he had seen with his own boyish, pitying eyes. In a little vinery attached to an old country house which the Mesuriers had rented for a month or so for certain successive summers, two swallows had built their nest, and, in due course, there were three young swallows to keep them company.
To be first-rate in your instincts, in all your fibres, and third-rate in your opportunities, that was a bitter indignity of circumstance. This sub-conscious sense of aristocracy it must be observed, lest it should have been insufficiently implied was almost humorously dissociated in the minds of the young Mesuriers from any recorded family distinctions.
Fielding waved a deprecating hand and continued: 'Living where they did, it is not to be wondered at that the Le Mesuriers became gradually rich, and the De Carterets gradually poor, so that when the latter family was compelled to place the Seigneurie of Sark upon the market, the Le Mesuriers were the highest bidders. The Le Mesuriers thus became Seigneurs of Sark.
So it was that Dot came to be baptised; and, to witness the ceremony, all the Mesuriers assembled at the chapel that Sunday evening, even Henry, who could hardly remember when he used to sit in this still-familiar pew, and scribble love-verses in the back of his hymn-book during the sermon.
Le Mesurier's voice, a consciousness of some thought in his daughter's mind which he would not openly acknowledge her to possess. The perception quickened Mallinson's conjecture into a positive conviction. There was evidently some fact about Drake, some incident perhaps in his life which brought him into relations with the Le Mesuriers, relations ignored by Drake, but known by Mr.
This it never occurred to them to mind in the least. It was one of Henry's deep-sunken maxims that "a distinguished product implied a distinguished process," and that, at all events, the genealogical process was only illustratively important. It would have been interesting to know how they, the Mesuriers, came to be what they were.
Drake coloured and replied quickly, 'You didn't let me finish. If he dislikes me, what made him talk about me as his friend to to the Le Mesuriers before I returned to England? 'Your name in print. You verged on well, notoriety. You may laugh, but that's the reason. Mallinson's always on the rack of other people's opinions judges himself by what he imagines to be their standard of him.
Such was the only accessible "ancestry" of the Mesuriers, and it is to be feared that the last state of the family was socially worse than the first. James Mesurier was unapproachably its present summit, its Alpine peak; and he was made to suffer for it no little by humble and impecunious relatives.
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