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Stanhope, sir? There isn't any Mr. Stanhope. He died two years ago. That place you see away over yonder is Mrs. Stanhope's farm." "She has a daughter Dora?" "Yes," Peleg Snuggers paused for a moment. "They say the widder thinks of marrying again." "Is that so!" put in Dick, and then he wondered if Dora would be pleased with her stepfather. "So that is the place?"
Among the different opinions which have existed in regard to his origin, the most noticeable are those advanced by Stanhope and Merker, and by Daumer, Eschricht, and Feuerbach. The Earl of Stanhope's connection with Caspar Hauser was a rather peculiar one.
From that day Hortense was Jack's slave, Jack was mine, and Ben was a pampered hero because he never told and took the punishment like a man. But there was never a word more slurring Hortense's unknown origin and Jack's strange wrist marks. Young Stanhope's informant had evidently mixed tradition with fact.
For years she had been worried about that, and yet she had no absolute reason to doubt that the madam had not sent it to its destination, except as she knew its contents and read Mrs. Stanhope's character beneath the excellent camouflage.
With this view he discouraged Stanhope's philanthropic and propagandist paper, the Telegrapho, and disparaged Dr. Mayor, its Swiss editor, saying, "Of all petty tyrants he is one of the pettiest, as are most demagogues." Byron had none of the Sclavonic leanings, and almost personal hatred of Ottoman rule, of some of our statesmen; but he saw on what side lay the forces and the hopes of the future.
Mary Bold and Mrs Bold were both at the piano, and Mr Harding was sitting close to them, with the violoncello between his legs; so that the elegance of the epistle was visible to them all. 'Please, ma'am, Dr Stanhope's coachman says he is to wait for an answer, said the servant. Eleanor got very red in the face as she took the note in her hand. She had never seen the writing before.
These works, with the contemporary tracts, and some MSS., with Lord Stanhope's "Decline of the Last Stuarts," and the Stuart Papers at Windsor, as given in Browne's "History of the Highland Clans," have been consulted in compiling this study of Prince Charles. By OLIVER OPTIC
"No bad news, I hope?" said Lady Delacour, again looking up from her writing at Belinda, who sat motionless, leaning her head upon her hand, as if deep in thought, Mrs. Stanhope's unfolded letter hanging from her hand.
"Read mine, read mine, if you must, but don't read my aunt Stanhope's Oh! I beg, I entreat, I conjure you!" and she threw herself upon her knees. "You beg! you entreat! you conjure!
'I thought Mr Slope seemed to talk to nobody there but that daughter of Stanhope's, said Mr Harding, wishing to defend his child. 'Oh, Mr Slope is a cleverer man than you think of, papa, and keeps more than one iron in the fire. To give Eleanor her due, any suspicion as to the slightest inclination on her part towards Mr Slope was a wrong to her.
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