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Updated: June 14, 2025
They ought to have been ashamed too, playin' gun-men in a British peer's park! I took big chances startin' her without controls, but 'twas a dead still night an' a clear run you saw it across the Theatre into the park, and I prayed she'd rise before she hit high timber. I set her all I dared for a quick lift. I told Mankeltow that if I gave her too much nose she'd be liable to up-end and flop.
And one had only to see Lord Thornaby's wry face behind the lid to guess that it was bent over a somewhat empty tin trunk. "What a rum lot to steal!" said he, with a twitch of humor at the corners of his canine mouth. "My peer's robes, with coronet complete!" We rallied round him in a seemly silence. I thought our scribe would put in his word. But even he either feigned or felt a proper awe.
During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out of the natives a hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible, that he might return home before his constitution had suffered from the heat, to marry a peer's daughter, to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall, and to give balls in St. James's Square.
There are the same wants, the same sorrows, the same necessity for the same cleansing beneath the queen's robes and the peer's ermine, the workman's jacket and the beggar's rags. Whatever differences of culture, of station, of idiosyncrasy there may be, these are but surface and accidental.
* It is surely a reflection on the English discernment not to have adopted this happy appellation, in which, however, as well as in many other parts of "the rights of Man and the Citizen," the Abbe seems to have consulted his own zeal, rather than the noble Peer's modesty.
Selwyn nodded and looked at the ragged clippings in his hand: 'ATTEMPTED MURDER IN WEST END. 'WELL-KNOWN NOBLEMAN ATTACKED BY PEER'S SON. 'QUARREL OVER DEMI-MONDAINE. 'Gad, those are juicy lines, aren't they? said Maynard. 'Won't some of our worthy citizens lick their chops over them, and point to the depravity of the upper classes? Do you know Dick Durwent?
Do you know she is a peer's daughter?" "I thought you said housework would do for the daughters of kings; and you have proposed it to our cousin, Dolly Dri " "Were you at Ryde this year, Phillipa?" asked Mrs. Purling, promptly. "No at Cowes. We were yachting. Dreary business, don't you think, Mr. Purling?" "I rather like it." "Yes, if you have a pleasant party and an object.
And so the Muse of Sancerre had simply come back to family and married life; but certain evil tongues declared that she had been compelled to come back, for that the little peer's wishes would no doubt be fulfilled he hoped for a little girl. Gatien and Monsieur Gravier lavished every care, every servile attention on the handsome Countess.
Not even certain domestic troubles that occurred regarding the marriage of his daughter, Lady Eleanor, disturbed the serenity of his content. Before his accession to the property of Lord Langleigh, Lord Ashkirk had betrothed his daughter to his nephew, Walter Dixon, the son of a wealthy attorney, who had married the peer's sister.
They drank off their beer, and sat smoking and talking of other things, until Ferdinand remarked casually: "By the way about your friend are his parents still alive?" Klaus was by no means anxious to go into Peer's family affairs, and answered briefly No, he thought not. "I'm afraid I'm boring you with questions, but the fact is the fellow interests me rather.
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