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There is a well-known story of an English nobleman, desiring to remain incog. in Calais, telling his negro servant “If any one ask who I am, Sambo, mind you say, ‘a Frenchman.’” Sambo carried out the instruction by saying “My massa a Frenchman, and so am I.” This anecdote exactly exemplifies a verdict of a jury it cannot stop short at sense, but must, by one fatal plunge, involve its decision in absurdity.
He did not venture to approach her, but when she got into a cab, took a Hansom and followed her to the entrance of the square, where he got down, his heart beating with exultant hope that "the rascal ass of a nobleman" had been dismissed.
What power have I to wrest her from the influence of that woman?" "What power? The power of honest and generous love. Ask her to marry you." Lord Hilton answered with a faint, bitter laugh. "Ask her to marry me, and, with that act, proclaim myself a beggar! I tell you, Lady Clara, there is not upon this earth a creature so dependent as a nobleman with nothing but expectations.
I'm sure, now, you must have some handsome young lover of your own, and that is why you don't care to come and drink wine and sit by me. Am I not right, eh?" "Ah, sir, a nobleman like you is sure to have a beautiful wife at home; and then you are so handsome that, of course, all the pretty young ladies are in love with you." "Nonsense! Why, how clever you are at flattering and paying compliments!
How dared the man whom she had so positively and sternly refused venture to continue his suit? Since the Emperor had loved her, she felt raised infinitely above the poor nobleman. Nay, she considered it a reprehensible impropriety that he still sought her.
The whole trend of his thoughts turned from the mortal consciousness to that inner self whence issues the higher qualities of mankind. From a man who, although he was a great writer and a Russian nobleman, was yet a man like others of his kind, influenced by traditionary ideas of class and outward appearance; a man of conventional habits and ideas; Tolstoi emerged a free soul.
It was not long before my young lord arrived, finely dressed, as became a nobleman. He wanted to inquire, as he said, by which road I should go up to the Stone with my daughter, seeing that his father, Hans von Nienkerken, item Wittich Appelmann and the Lepels of Gnitze, were also going, and that there was much people on all the high roads, as though a fair was being held.
The law is meant to remind us more or less that we are brothers, members of one body; that we owe a duty to each other; that we are all equal in God's sight, who is no respecter of persons, or of rank, or of riches, any more than the law is when it punishes the greatest nobleman as severely as the poorest labourer.
Now that Selina is dead, Isabella is under the thumb of Maraquito." "This is all theory," said Jennings impatiently. "We can only theorize in our present state of uncertainty," was the reply of the nobleman. "But my explanation is a reasonable one." "I do not deny that. But why should Maraquito send for Mrs. Octagon?"
It is as well that even a nobleman's daughter should be married if she can find a nobleman or such like to her taste. There is no breach of sanctity in the love, but so great a wound to the idolatry in the man! Things have not changed so quickly that even you should be free from the feeling.
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