The Duke's Children: A Novel, 第 2 巻

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Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1880
 

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16 ページ - People know who you are, and discount all that." " If the difference be very marked they do. For instance, I need n't wear a hideous long bit of cloth over my face in Constantinople because I am a woman. But when the discrepancies are small then they have to be attended to. So I shan't walk about with you any more." " Oh yes, you will," said Silverbridge, who began to think that he liked walking about with Miss Boncassen. " Certainly not. There is Mr. Sprottle. He is father's secretary. He will take...
75 ページ - I got to be thinking if any one of them should ask me to marry him,' words attributed to Miss Boncassen, in The Duke's Children, have much more the note of English American than of American English. But, on the whole, in these matters Trollope does very well. His fund of acquaintance with his own country — and indeed with the world at large — was apparently inexhaustible...
268 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." "Is it so?" " There is no greater mistake than to suppose that inferiority of birth is a barrier...
135 ページ - ... everything, and Lord Nidderdale, whose wife had generously permitted him this recreation. The shooting was in the west of Perthshire, known as CrummieToddie, and comprised an enormous acreage of so-called forest and moor. Mr. Dobbes declared that nothing like it had as yet been produced in Scotland. Everything had been made to give way to deer and grouse. The thing had been managed so well that the tourist nuisance had been considerably abated. There was hardly a potato patch left in the district,...
50 ページ - If ever sinner became suddenly convinced that there was a good deal to be said in favour of a moral life, that sinner at the moment I speak of was Gustave Rameau.
280 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.
4 ページ - I thought, my Lord Duke, you might care about learning how Silverbridge was going on." This the poor little man said almost with a whine. His partner's roughness had knocked out of him nearly all the courage which Bacchus had given him. "So I do; anything that interests him interests me. But perhaps of all his pursuits racing is the one to which I am least able to lend an attentive ear. That every horse has a head and that all did have tails till they were ill-used is the extent of my stable knowledge.
267 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.
13 ページ - ... her countenance which no fixed colours can produce. . . . Her teeth were excellent, both in form and colour, but were seen but seldom. Who does not know that look of ubiquitous ivory produced by teeth which are too perfect in a face which is otherwise poor? Her nose at the base spread a little — so that it was not purely Grecian. But who has ever seen a nose to be eloquent and expressive which did not so spread?
140 ページ - Dobbes had been heard to say — " a very fine house for ladies to flirt in ; but if you find a deer within six miles of it I will eat him first and shoot him afterwards.

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