The Duke's Children, 第 2 巻Dodd, Mead, 1893 |
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American beauty American girl angry bets better bridge Captain Green certainly course Crummie-Toddie Custins dance dare say daughter dear dinner Dolly Longstaff Doncaster doubt duchess Duke of Omnium Duke's duty father feeling felt Finn fond Frank Tregear gentleman Gerald give glad gone hand heard heart hope horse Isabel Boncassen Killancodlem knew Lady Cantrip Lady Glencora Lady Mab Lady Mabel Grex looked Lord Popplecourt Lord Silverbridge lover Lupton Major Tifto marriage marry matter mean mind Miss Boncassen Miss Cass Miss Cassewary Montacute Jones morning nail never Newmarket Nidderdale once orse papa pause perhaps Phineas Phineas Finn pleasant Pook pretty race Reginald Dobbes ring round Scotland seemed shooting sister speak spoke suppose sure talk tell thing thought told trouble truth turned understand verbridge walk wife wish woman word young lady
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11 ページ - ... man of wealth and a man of letters. And he had a daughter who was said to be the prettiest young woman either in Europe or in America at the present time. Isabel Boncassen was certainly a very pretty girl. I wish that my reader would believe my simple assurance. But no such simple assurance was ever believed, and I doubt even whether any description will procure for me from the reader that amount of faith which I desire to achieve. But I must make the attempt. General opinion generally considered...
127 ページ - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
228 ページ - English society, pointing out to her the way in which "our peerage is being continually recruited from the ranks of the people." "But there was an inner feeling in his bosom as to his own family, his own name, his own children, and his own personal self, which was kept altogether apart from his grand political theories.
4 ページ - That every horse has a head, and that all did have tails till they were ill-used is the extent of my stable knowledge." " Very good indeed, my Lord Duke ; very good indeed! Ha, ha, ha, — all horses have heads, and all have tails! Heads and tails. Upon my word that is the best thing I have heard for a long time. I will do myself the honour of wishing your Grace good night.
238 ページ - all restraint would be lost and there would be an end to those rules as to birth and position by which he thought his world was kept straight'.24 But in another part of his thought, the duke had sealed off a different set of convictions.
228 ページ - Lords, whose grandmother had been a washerwoman and whose father an inn-keeper, was to him every whit as good a peer as himself. And he would as soon sit in counsel with Mr. Monk, whose father had risen from a mechanic to be a merchant, as with any nobleman who could count ancestors against himself. But there was an inner feeling in his bosom as to his own family, his own name, his own children, and his own personal self, which was kept altogether apart from his grand political theories.
238 ページ - ... Lady Glencora had been subjected. If he persevered, — and he still was sure, almost sure, that he would persevere, — his object must be achieved after a different fashion. There must be infinite suffering, — suffering both to him and to her. Could she have been made to consent to marry some one else, terrible as the rupture might have been, she would have reconciled herself at last to her new life. So it had been with his Glencora, — after a time.
10 ページ - ... family has labored since her grandfather emigrated to New York "and worked upon the quays in that city. Then he built houses, and became rich, . . . with the good sense ... to educate his only son!'18 Trollope quite emphatically dissociates Isabel Boncassen's father from business, and politics too: Mr. Boncassen was an American who had lately arrived in England with the object of carrying out certain literary pursuits in which he was engaged within the British Museum. He was an American who had...
227 ページ - But a Prime Minister can make a duke, and if a man can raise himself by his own intellect to that position, no one will think of his father or his grandfather. The sons of merchants have with us been Prime Ministers more than once, and no Englishmen ever weie more honoured among their countrymen. Our peerage is being continually recruited from the ranks of the people, and hence it gets its strength.
228 ページ - ... good looks of that sort which recommend themselves to pastors and masters, to elders and betters." At the same time, not knowing that Silverbridge has asked Isabel Boncassen to marry him, he happily lectures her on the democracy of English society, pointing out to her the way in which "our peerage is being continually recruited from the ranks of the people.