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But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly. Lucas, the butler of the duke, himself opened the door. At the sight of Pollyooly he started back; for the moment he thought that his lost young mistress stood before him. Pollyooly stepped across the threshold, and said firmly: "I want to see the Duke of Osterley, please."
"Well, you certainly have looks on your side; and that is three-quarters of the woman's battle. It's rather a score for you, too, that Osterley is one of the most susceptible dukes in England. But remember: don't be too civil to him; just bow. And then be firm very firm." "Yes, sir: I will," said Pollyooly very firmly indeed.
The conceit was a more ponderous one than that of Raleigh's cloak bricks and mortar versus velvet. A greater than Gresham succeeded, after the death of his widow, to the occupancy of Osterley Chief-justice Coke. His compliment to Elizabeth on the occasion of a similar visit to the same house took the more available and acceptable shape of ten or twelve hundred pounds sterling in jewelry.
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