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He gave them to those who upheld his throne, as a reward for service or loyalty. They were given to a new class of statesmen, who led the popular party, like the Fitzwilliams, the Russells, the Dudleys, and the Seymours, and thus became the foundation of their great estates. They were also distributed to many merchants and manufacturers who had been loyal to the government.
Her eyes flashed, and an angry word was already suspended on her lips; but she still held it back. She violently forced herself to calmness and self-possession. "Consider once more, Henry," said she, "do not decide at once. You speak of our greatness; but you do not bear in mind the power of the Seymours. I tell you they are powerful enough to tread us in the dust, despite all our greatness.
Having secured Kitty's forgotten fan, Mallory absent-mindedly descended the long stone flight of steps instead of taking the lift and, regaining the street, hailed a passing taxi and drove towards Green Street, whither the Seymours' car had already proceeded.
They prefer their own set and their own ways, and are comfortably sure that what they do not know is not worth knowing, and what they have not been in the habit of doing is not worth doing; but still they are indulgent of the existence of human nature outside of their own circle. The Seymours and the Fergusons belonged to this sort of people; and, of course, Mr.
The testator, he said, was a descendant in blood from the Percys and the Seymours, two of the most illustrious names of the British islands; the brother of the Duke of Northumberland, who, by the name of Percy, was known at the sanguinary opening scenes of our Revolutionary War, and fought as a British officer at Lexington and Bunker Hill, and was the bearer of the despatches, from the commander of the British forces to his government, announcing the event of that memorable day.
I won't have anything to do with anybody who breaks his promise, and who can't keep sober. My father was never so in his life, and Harry shall never come near me again if he " "Hold on! HOLD ON! Oh, what an unforgiving minx! You Seymours are all like tinder boxes your mother was just like you and so was " "Well, not father," she bridled, with a toss of her head. St.
In his latter days, he ordered, in a fit of jealousy, the execution of the Duke of Norfolk, the first nobleman of the kingdom, who had given offence to the Earl of Hertford, uncle to the young prince of Wales, and the founder of the greatness of the Seymours.
The king loves the noble Seymours, and his powerful arm will protect them against all their enemies." "And, without doubt, your majesty will assist him in it?" said Jane, smiling. This smile brought the queen back to her senses again. She perceived that she had gone too far; that she had betrayed too much of her secret.
There one would meet members of the families of the old Dutch aristocracy, the Van Rensselaers, the Van Vechtens, the Schuylers, the Livingstons, the Bleeckers, the Brinkerhoffs, the Ten Eycks, the Millers, the Seymours, the Cochranes, the Biddles, the Barclays, the Wendells, and many others.
Now and then the door would open and a bevy of muffled figures the men in cloaks, the girls in nubias wound about their heads and shoulders would pass out. The Seymours were evidently giving a ball, or was it and the blood left his face and little chills ran loose through his hair was it Kate's wedding night? Pawson had said that a marriage would soon take place, and in the immediate future.
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