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It gave to Lionel and Douglas Dale property worth ten thousand a year. It gave to Reginald a small estate, producing an income of five hundred a year. To Captain Copplestone the baronet left a legacy of three thousand pounds, and an antique seal-ring which had been worn by himself. The old servants of Raynham were all remembered, and some curious old plate and gold snuff-boxes were left to Mr.
Of the family between the Conquest and Falstaff's birth we know nothing, except that, according to Falstaff's statement, he had a grandfather who left him a seal-ring worth forty marks. From this statement we might infer that the ring was an heirloom, and consequently that Falstaff was an eldest son, and the head of his family.
“ receive thou my seal-ring: Bear it to my factor; bid him by that token Sort thee out forty pounds’ worth of such wares As thou shall think most beneficial.” The custom must have been common to be thus used in dramatic scenes of real life, which the plainest audience would criticise.
These plays were produced in 1606, and serve to show that the value attached to a seal-ring descended from very ancient to comparatively modern times. In the Waterton collection is a massive gold signet-ring, with the rebus of the Wylmot family quaintly designed in the taste of the fourteenth century.
His boots were small and neatly blacked. He wore a ruffled shirt, a large seal-ring, a standing collar of obsolete pattern, and a checkered neckerchief with the ends hanging down. Date of costume about 1848. He was smoking a cigar, and trying to think of a word, and in pawing his hair he had rumpled his locks a good deal.
A great seal-ring bore an elaborate monogram, while the little finger displayed a collection of diamonds and emeralds truly dazzling to behold. An impulse of humanity and a sort of artistic curiosity, much stronger than her discretion, urged Kate to continue her conversation. "What were you doing up the gulch?" she said. The man leaned back in his chair and regarded her a moment before answering.
My wife had seen the present Mrs. Saxham at Gueldersdorp, and, not knowin' that the surname of Mildare had been taken by her at the wish of her adopted mother, supposed got the maggot into her head that the Mother-Superior's ward might possibly be a a daughter of the man the seal-ring had belonged to, knowing Lord! what a mull I'm making of it! that Mildare had at one time been engaged to marry that" the Major boggled horribly "that uncommonly brave and noble lady, and had, in fact, thrown her over, and made a bolt of it with the wife of his Regimental C.O., Colonel Sir George Hawting."
"This summary process was as effectual in those simple days as was the seal-ring of the great Haroun Alraschid among the true believers. The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High-Dutch commentator, or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.
'This is a secret between us, Garnet. Your partners 'Shall know nothing. And as for myself, I am as close as an emerald in a seal-ring. Close of the Season HUSSEIN PACHA, 'the favourite, not only of the Marquess of Mash, but of Tattersall's, unaccountably sickened and died. His noble master, full of chagrin took to his bed, and followed his steed's example.
Would any man want to die in a battle which was called by so tame a term as a SCHLACHT? Or would not a comsumptive feel too much bundled up, who was about to go out, in a shirt-collar and a seal-ring, into a storm which the bird-song word GEWITTER was employed to describe?
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