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Louise, you say, fled with a seducer? So proud as she was, I can scarcely believe it." "Oh, it was not with a roturier she fled; her pride would not have allowed that." "He must have deceived her somehow. Did she continue to live with him?"
Conrad, the Corsair, one virtue in the midst of a thousand crimes, he was faithful to his employer for the time being: and a story is told of him, which may or may not be to his credit, viz. that being hired on one occasion by a certain lord to inflict a punishment upon a roturier who had crossed his lordship in his amours, he, Macshane, did actually refuse from the person to be belaboured, and who entreated his forbearance, a larger sum of money than the nobleman gave him for the beating; which he performed punctually, as bound in honour and friendship.
Roturier as he was, Sir Robert was gratified by the homage which he rendered, and proceeded in a tone of gracious familiarity: 'And now, Mr. Glossin, my exceeding good friend, you must allow me to avail myself of your knowledge of law in our proceedings in this matter.
"I presume to think, sir," said the young Highlander, "there would be no degradation on Miss Wardour's part in point of family." "O, Heaven forbid we should come on that topic! No, no, equal both both on the table-land of gentility, and qualified to look down on every roturier in Scotland." "And in point of fortune we are pretty even, since neither of us have got any," continued Hector.
The habitants of the east were now as free as the farmers of the west. The seigniors themselves largely benefited by the capitalization in money of their old rights, and by the untrammelled possession of land held en franc aleu roturier.
Modest Mignons are not rare in our ville, and the Gothic vaults of Saint-Léonard and the pillared aisles of Sainte-Cathérine witness almost as many little intrigues, as many heart-beats and blushes, as does "evenin' meetin'" in our own bucolic regions. Désirée, our femme-de-chambre, before she came to us, lived in a wealthy roturier family.
Often, in the glittering crowd that she attracted around her, her ear, sharpened by the jealousy and pride of her nature, caught words that dashed the cup of pleasure and of vanity with shame and anger. "What! that the Vernon's daughter? Poor girl! dependent entirely on Lady Erpingham! Ah! she'll take in some rich roturier, I hope."
Never be shy, my good fellow; it is inexcusable after twenty: besides, it is a bad compliment to my nerves a gentleman is prepared for every event. Sir, it is only a roturier whom death, or anything else, takes by surprise. How many hours, then, can I live?" "Not many, I fear, sir: perhaps until daybreak."
This fact shows our British independence and honest feeling our higher orders are not such mere haughty aristocrats as the ignorant represent them: on the contrary, if a man have money they will hold out their hands to him, eat his dinners, dance at his balls, marry his daughters, or give their own lovely girls to his sons, as affably as your commonest roturier would do.
Never be shy, my good fellow; it is inexcusable after twenty: besides, it is a bad compliment to my nerves a gentleman is prepared for every event. Sir, it is only a roturier whom death, or anything else, takes by surprise. How many hours, then, can I live?" "Not many, I fear, sir: perhaps until daybreak."
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