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The Marquis of Carabas to the tribune." "Very well," said I. "I have to inform you that I am a gentleman. You do not know what that means, hey? Well, I will tell you. It is a comical sort of animal; springs from another strange set of creatures they call ancestors; and, in common with toads and other vermin, has a thing that he calls feelings. The lion is a gentleman; he will not touch carrion.
Over the gateway there rose a turreted tower, the small square window of which, notwithstanding its stout stanchions, illumined the muniment room of the House of Carabas.
Thus situated, I find myself working for the same end as my Lord Carabas and twenty other men of similar calibre, mental and moral; and, sir, am I to play the hermit in the drama of life because, perchance, my fellow-actors may be sometimes fools, and occasionally knaves?
"Good people," said he, in a very firm voice, "the king is coming past here shortly, and if you do not say that the field you are mowing belongs to my lord the Marquis of Carabas, you shall all be chopped as small as mince-meat."
After having been closeted with Lord Carabas for a considerable time the morning after the cabinet dinner, Vivian left Chateau Desir. He travelled night and day, until he arrived in the vicinity of Mr. Cleveland's abode. What was he to do now? After some deliberation, he despatched a note to Mr.
I've heard, too, that there are such things as tufted fortune-hunters, but theirs is a career that requires a special vocation, and I'm afraid I haven't got it." "Then you're no true Marquis of Carabas," the lady took him smartly up. "You've found me out I'm only a faux-marquis," he laughed. "Thrrr!" breathed Lady Blanchemain, and for a little while appeared lost in thought.
"It is but little," replied Puss, looking wise, as cats can. "You have only to go and bathe in the river, at a place which I shall show you, and leave all the rest to me. Only remember that you are no longer yourself, but my lord the Marquis of Carabas." "Just so," said the miller's son; "it's all the same to me;" but he did as the cat told him.
I meant, of course, folk who are dukes. We're all dukes or bagmen." The young man chuckled; but in a minute he pulled a long face, and made big, ominous eyes. "I feel I ought to warn you," he said in a portentous voice, "that some of us are mere marquises of the house of Carabas." Lady Blanchemain, her whole expansive person, simmered with enjoyment.
"To my lord marquis of Carabas," said they all at once; for the threats of the cat had terribly frighted them. "You have here a very fine piece of land, my lord marquis," said the king. "Truly, sire," replied he, "it does not fail to bring me every year a plentiful harvest."
'Carry off the birds, you sneaks, and sell 'em in London, roars the individual, who it appears was a keeper of Lord Carabas. 'You'll get six shillings a brace for 'em. 'YOU know the price of 'em well enough, and so does your master too, you scoundrel, says Ponto, still retreating. 'We kill 'em on our ground, cries Mr. Snapper. 'WE don't set traps for other people's birds. We're no decoy ducks.
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