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A couple of thousand pounds to a Press agent will secure for a burglar an invitation to dine at a peer's table. Plainly speaking, in Europe since the war, real merit has become almost a back number. Money buys anything and anybody. I fear that, young man as I still am, I am a fierce critic of the manners of our times.
If the idea of making her my wife had never previously occurred to me as practicable, it was that I deemed her rank incompatible with my own." "As it was," said the earl. "Country solicitors have married peers' daughters before now," remarked Mr. Carlyle. "I only add another to the list." "But you cannot keep her as a peer's daughter, I presume?" "East Lynne will be her home.
King Charles X., at that time Monsieur, had the greatest esteem for him, and a peer's seat, an appointment at Court, some important post certainly would have been his. That woman turned his head, and has ruined all the prospects of my family." "What were M. d'Espard's religious opinions at that time?" "He was, and is still, a very pious man."
'Menial servants' are among the poor people. The bill has no regard for them. The Baronet's dinner must be cooked on Sunday, the Bishop's horses must be groomed, and the Peer's carriage must be driven.
And I wondered if the moon, that is co-partner in the antics of most rogues and lovers, had often beheld a sight more reasonless than the foregathering of a marquis, a peer's daughter, and a fool at dead of night to make fagots. When we had done I handed him the flint and steel. "My lord," said I, "the honor is yours."
"I shall have the peer's blue hammer-cloth on my carriage, and the leaders of the literary world in my drawing-room and I will look at her!" And it was this little triumph that told with all its weight at the moment of her rehabilitation, as the world's contempt had of old weighed on her happiness.
"And now, let me present you to your betrothed." Although poor Randal had been remorselessly hurried along what Schiller calls the "gamut of feeling," during the last three minutes, down to the deep chord of despair at the abrupt intelligence that his betrothed was no heiress after all; thence ascending to vibrations of pleasant doubt as to the unborn usurper of her rights, according to the prophecies of parturitive science; and lastly, swelling into a concord of all sweet thoughts at the assurance that, come what might, she would be a wealthier bride than a peer's son could discover in the matrimonial Potosi of Lombard Street, still the tormented lover was not there allowed to repose his exhausted though ravished soul.
"I wish to God you had been dead in a ditch before a hair of my boy's had been touched. You live, and he lies dying there!" Cecil bowed in silence; the brutality of the words wounded, but they did not offend him, for he knew his father was in that moment scarce better than a maniac, and he was touched with the haggard misery upon the old Peer's face.
Lord Bromley spoke again, but his voice, though stern, was broken. "I disinherited my only son for a marriage that displeased me, by which you have benefited. He died unreconciled to me. You may judge what quarter you would get in a similar offence!" The old peer's face had turned to granite.
So if you are a Liberal, let it be simply for the moment, so that you can make a better bargain for your Royalism." Lucien fell under the charm of the noble peer's arguments; the salons from which he had been exiled for ever, as he thought, but a few months ago, would shortly open their doors for him! He was delighted.
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