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Dukes, earls, and viscounts flowed from his nimble tongue "When I was hunting with Lord this," or "When I was waltzing with Lady that." His regrets were after the Opera and Almack's, and his height of felicity seemed to be driving a four-in-hand drag. After expatiating to me in the most vociferous manner on the delights of titled society, he turned to Mrs.
Rich, titled, a real noble, he was at heart an adventurer, a word greatly abused these inglorious days. For does not the word adventurer stand for the pioneer, the explorer, the inventor, the soldier and the sailor? It is wrong to apply the word to the impostor. My father was cut from the same pattern, a wild and reckless spirit in those crowded times. The two became friends such as you and Mr.
Given a sounding-board and a harmonium, and a titled woman of some sort in the chair, and he'll be perfectly happy; I must say I hadn't realised how overpowering he might be at a small dinner-party." "I should say he was a very good man," said Mrs. Greech; she had forgiven the mutilation of her soup-plate story. The party broke up early as most of the guests had other engagements to keep.
Does not Punch speak of the titled lady, eager to win a guinea prize, who gave seven volumes of Carlyle's works to seven upper servants, and asked each to search one to find a certain quotation?" "Oh," said Mrs. Watts, "I don't mean for the incurables to amuse themselves with. I mean for the benefit of the home."
The 'county' is the county families landed gentry very ancient and swagger and all that much more so than the titled people often. It was very great promotion for the daughter of one of the town to marry into the county or would have been except that Mother was county also." She spoke with mock solemnity. "How delightfully picturesque and medieval!" exclaimed Stefan.
It is amazing how soon the rich and titled, and even some of those who have wielded great political power, are forgotten. A little rule, a little sway, Is all the great and mighty have Betwixt the cradle and the grave and, after its short date, they hardly leave a name behind them.
"We are not accustomed to the companionship of titled personages," said the commander at its conclusion. "But we are eminently a social party, and we desire our guests to make themselves as much at home on board of the Guardian-Mother as if they owned her, and were running her for their own pleasure." "Thank you, Captain Ringgold.
Perhaps all he could do was drive a car; if so he did it drove a London bus out at the front, or a wagon; or did anything else at which he would be useful. Many of the idle rich young men, and the majority of the young titled men of England, rose to the occasion and went out and fought and died, and many now lie buried in Flanders for the sake of Old England for the freedom of the world.
He began as he had begun with every one of them the delicate, titled aristocrats, the ambitious Society beauties, the popular actresses, the women who envied these and read about them in the illustrated interviews published in the fashion-papers, and sighed to be interviewed also to not one of these had he weighed out one drachm less of the bitter salutary medicine that he now administered to Mrs.
So were they titled by all, and they accepted the title with a genuine and holy simplicity which betokened a truer modesty than the pretended denegation which we might expect. Thus they seemed above temptation. The virgins consecrated to God were as numerous at least as the monks.
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