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Foreign, I suppose?" Lord Essendine had the usual contempt of the respectable Briton for titles not mentioned in Debrett or Burke. "It's French, I fancy; and for the moment it is in abeyance. Madame Cyprienne tells me " "Gracious powers, William Wilders! have you fallen into that woman's clutches?" "I must ask you, Lord Essendine, to speak more respectfully of the lady I propose to make my wife."
When he was at the point of death, worn out with suffering, he said sadly, "My birth and my death comprise my whole history." But this short story is perhaps richer in instruction than the longest reigns. The Emperor's son will be known for many ages by his three titles, the King of Rome, Napoleon II., and the Duke of Reichstadt.
It was then no longer the mere gardener of earth, or the shepherd of her flocks; "it carried with it an imposing and majestic aspect; it had a pedigree and illustrious ancestors; it had its gallery of portraits, its monumental inscriptions, its records and titles." This was all over, now that the ocean of death had sucked in the slackening tide, and its source was dried up.
"Were it in my power," said the Duke, who began to get farther interested in his visitor than he could at first have thought possible "Were it in my power to deserve such faithful attachment, methinks it should be my care to requite it." "Your wealth, your titles, your reputation as a gallant all you possess, were too little to merit such sincere affection."
They who had kept themselves invisible, so long as the issue of a perplexed negotiation seemed doubtful, now became obsequious and inevitable as his shadow. One grand seignior wanted a regiment, another a government, a third a chamberlain's key; all wanted titles, ribbons, offices, livery, wages. Don John distributed favors and promises with vast liberality.
This amounted to over £15,000 and covered only sums actually disbursed by him for the army. Unlike Marlborough, Nelson, and Wellington, and other foreign chieftains on whom grateful countrymen conferred fortunes and high titles, Washington remains as the one great state-founder who literally gave his services to his country.
At about the same time his grandfather died, and he inherited a very large fortune, so that the small boy bore not only one of the oldest titles in the kingdom but possessed enough money to do exactly as he pleased. There was only one course open to him the life of a courtier at Versailles. In that age of ceremony marriage was quite as much a formal matter as other affairs of life.
Each has a high court known as a Relação, and there are inferior courts of various styles and titles. Above all is the Supreme Tribunal of Justice at Lisbon, which is the final court of appeal, and the reputation of which is somewhat better than that of any other tribunal. The administration of criminal justice is naturally amongst the worst.
A week later, he announced to me in a tone which indicated clearly that my opinion was only wanted if it was approval, "I have decided to call my book 'Transition." "I always like single word titles," I said. "No one will read it," he said. "One bares one's soul to the public and they throw stones at it. But at any rate, now I can hold my head high."
That made it very easy for me. All I had to do was to keep everything in its place as she had left it." Miss Grant was enraptured with the library. I thought she would never finish scanning the titles and the authors. "This is a positive book-wormery," she exclaimed.
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