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The Pelhams are here and simply dying for a change, and there's Captain Gardner and Frank Clowes, and lots of nice girls. Couldn't we fix a date, Dick?" "Not just yet," her brother replied. "And why not?" "I am waiting," he told her, "until I can ask the girl I want to go." "And why can't you now?" she demanded, with upraised eyebrows. "I'll be hostess and chaperone all in one."
"The Pelhams!" cried Dora and Amy, in one breath. "Yes, how do we know?" repeated Will. "That girl who sits over at the corner table with that stuffy old woman, acquainted with the Pelhams! Oh, Will, if Agnes could hear you!" cried Dora, with a shout of laughter. "Well, I can't see what there is to laugh at," broke in Will, huffily.
Description of a Bridle Varieties of Bits Snaffles Curbs Pelhams Nose-bands Reins Martingales Adjustment of the Bridle. As there is no difference between the bridles used by men and those employed by ladies, I have compiled this chapter from my husband's Riding and Hunting, to which I beg to refer my readers for any further information they may require.
She wears the plainest sort of dresses, just little straight up and down frocks of brown or drab, or those white cambric things, they are more like baby-slips than anything; and her hats are just the same, great flat all-round hats, not a bit of style to them; and she's a girl of fourteen or fifteen certainly. Do you suppose people of the Pelhams' kind dress like that?"
"Oh, Tilly, you are such a dear!" "One of Agnes's wonderful Pelhams!" shouted Tom. "Guess she won't be in a hurry to set up a claim to 'em now!" and Tom burst out again in wild chuckles of hilarity. "And I never saw her, and I don't believe she ever met one of us before," cried Peggy.
Then followed the ministry of the Pelhams, Henry Pelham and the Duke of Newcastle, who, like Walpole, managed Parliament by bribing the members through the gift of offices. In the war of the Austrian succession , England took part with Austria, and the king in person fought in Germany. The Highlanders defeated the English at Preston Pans, near Edinburgh.
The two Pelhams the Duke of Newcastle and his brother, Henry Pelham were tremendously strong in family influence, in money, in retainers, led-captains, and hangers-on of all kinds. Pulteney, who had always held a seat nominally in the Cabinet, although he had hitherto clung to his determination not to take office, now suddenly thought fit to change his mind.
The Pelhams were descended from one of the oldest, proudest and richest families in England, and had an immense parliamentary influence from their aristocratic connections, their wealth, and their experience. They were not remarkable for genius so much as for sagacity, tact, and intrigue. They were extremely ambitious, and fond of place and power.
Walpole and the Pelhams carried the day; Henry Pelham became Prime-minister, and from that time the power of Carteret was gone. This was in 1743 we are now going back a little to take up threads which had to be dropped in order to deal with the events springing out of the continental war, and especially the rebellion in Scotland and in November, 1744, Carteret was driven to resign his office.
Elizabeth bought it and bestowed it on Lord Howard of Effingham, who well earned it by his services against the Armada. Of the families who subsequently owned the place, the Pelhams are the most noted. Now it has passed from their hands.
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