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He had a mistress who was at one time in the humour to be treated as a tender woman, at another as an outrageous flirt, at another as the haughtiest and most imperious of queens; her mood varied, no one could tell how, and it was most dangerous to mistake it.
This eye, this mind, flung its gleaming penetration into every covert of the soul and deep, deep, deep into the most shrouded, the most shuddering secrets of Mortality. Was it by virtue of a mere portrait-painter's powers that the son of the Augsburg Bohemian came to lay his finger upon the very core and composition of perhaps the haughtiest, the subtlest, the most dread despot since the Cæsars?
Jane stopped a little short of the house and removed the coat that had so effectually sheltered her. 'Thank you, sir, she said, returning it to Sidney. He took it without speaking, and threw it over his arm. At the door, now closed, Jane gave a single knock; they were admitted by Clem, who, in regarding Kirkwood, wore her haughtiest demeanour.
At the name of the person thus introduced to me, a thousand recollections crowded upon my mind; the contemporary and rival of Napoleon the autocrat of the great world of fashion and cravats the mighty genius before whom aristocracy had been humbled and ton abashed at whose nod the haughtiest noblesse of Europe had quailed who had introduced, by a single example, starch into neckcloths, and had fed the pampered appetite of his boot-tops on champagne whose coat and whose friend were cut with an equal grace and whose name was connected with every triumph that the world's great virtue of audacity could achieve the illustrious, the immortal Russelton, stood before me.
Though a Whig, or, perhaps, because a Whig, the Marquess was one of the haughtiest men breathing, and treated commoners as his idol the great Earl used to treat them after he came to a coronet himself as so many low vassals, who might be proud to lick his shoe-buckle. When the Tippleton mayor and corporation waited upon him, he received them covered, never offered Mr.
He had gone back to the proudest, haughtiest home in town; and Etta where could Etta go?
"My Lord will pardon me for observing," said the Archbishop's voice, "with a royal kinsman of his own, that God may grant him many kingdoms, but he can never have but one mother." The Duke's answer was in his haughtiest manner. "I assure you of my regret, holy Father. Necessity has no law." "And no compassion?" "Jean, my Jean! Only one minute more one minute cannot be of importance.
Green and damp were the mighty stones of the walls, and through a narrow aperture, high out of reach, came the moonlight, and slept in long shadow over the rude floor. A bed at one corner completed the furniture of the room. Such for months had been the abode of the conqueror of the haughtiest Barons, and the luxurious dictator of the stateliest city of the world!
It was more than mere extension of interest with them; it was more than ambition's haughtiest fight; it was the sun-dried, wind-shriveled, tried-out atavistic blood-thirst made holy by the approval of the Good God they knew. The miniature war-party got at last into the Absaroke country.
Nikky Larisch had arrived just as Hedwig departed, and even the Crown Prince had recognized something wrong. Nikky had stopped just inside the doorway, with his eyes rather desperately and hungrily on Hedwig, and Hedwig, who should have been scolded, according to Prince Otto, had passed him with the haughtiest sort of nod. The Crown Prince witnessed the nod with wonder and alarm.
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