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Updated: June 15, 2025
Lord Southdown was thinking, as he led Miss Darling to her chair at the head of the table, that he never had seen a more pleasing young woman, though he grieved at her taste in preferring the brown young man on her left to his elegant friend Lord Dashville.
"Well, it was like this: when he got me down there he not only persuaded me to buy the ten young Holstein cows and a bull, but he induced me to buy five Berkshire brood sows and two four-year-old Belgian mares. He wanted me to take a flock of Southdown Ewes and a ram, but I didn't buy them there's no money in keeping a few sheep."
I am sure Aunt Bute need not talk; she wants to marry Kate to young Hooper, the wine-merchant, and absolutely asked him to come to the Rectory for orders." "I wonder whether Lady Southdown will go away, she looked very glum upon Mrs. Rawdon," the other said. "I wish she would.
And for the first time in her life the Dowager Countess of Southdown was made amusing. Sir Pitt remembered the testimonies of respect and veneration which Rebecca had paid personally to himself in early days, and was tolerably well disposed towards her.
All the late prelate's wives had fortunes, which the admirable man increased by thrift, the judicious sale of leases which fell in during his episcopacy, &c. He left three hundred thousand pounds divided between his nephew and niece not a greater sum than has been left by several deceased Irish prelates. What Lord Southdown has done with his share we are not called upon to state.
And he was in the habit, until very lately, of sending over proteges, with letters of recommendation to the present Marquis of Steyne, encouraged to do so by the intimate terms on which he had lived with his dear friend, the late lord. He was most indignant that a young and insignificant aristocrat, the Earl of Southdown, should have taken the pas of him in their procession to the dining-room.
The latter was a feeble child, and it was only by prodigious quantities of calomel that Lady Southdown was able to keep him in life at all. As for Sir Pitt he retired into those very apartments where Lady Crawley had been previously extinguished, and here was tended by Miss Hester, the girl upon her promotion, with constant care and assiduity.
Or you have incidentally compared Welsh mutton with Southdown: you have not highly esteemed their drunken Bards: you have asked what the Welsh have done in the world; you are supposed to have slighted some person of their family a tenth cousin! anything turns their blood.
This is worse than the Southdown Road, many degrees worse." "Sir, such insinuations are most uncalled for; I must beg of you to withdraw them. I must ask you to remember you are talking to one at least in the same position as yourself, to a man of seven thousand a year!" "Pooh, pooh! seven thousand a year you are making that to-day, to- morrow you mayn't be making three.
I have a packet which I wish to send ashore, and if you will give Lord Southdown here who seems to be a friend of yours a passage to the Hard and off again, he will look after your boat's crew for you whilst you purchase your eggs."
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