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......................................................... 10 CHAPTER III. THE PEERAGE CASE ................................................................. ...not lie between you and me, but between me and Alured. It is, as I said, a peerage question—and will be decided by the peers. Incidentally, that enqui...

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...obtain this status. Holiness, religious values, noble blood, ancient lineage, peerages: were no longer the basis of social status. Social values b...

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...ckeray fought Sir George in his own borough. Sir George would have had the peerage he is dying for, had he not lost that second seat (by-the-by, my La... ...l his services, all the promises he has had, they have never given him his peerage. As for me, you know—” “For you, my dear madam, I know quite well t... ...e were two Ministerial Members for Oldborough, do you think your husband’s peerage would be less secure? I am not at liberty to tell you all I know on... ...crets, if you had dared to do so. That woman is per- petually here, and if peerages are to be had for the ask- ing, she ought to have been a duchess b... ...commit him—if we can but make him vote for Pincher,” said the General, “my peerage is se- cure. Hawksby and Crampton as good as told me so.” The point... ...g in of the Whigs. As for Sir George Gorgon, when he came to ask about his peerage, Hawksby told him that they could not afford to lose him in the Com...

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...h what he did not like. Eustace’s favourite study, meanwhile, was “Burke’s Peerage,” and his questions nearly drove me wild by their absurdity; and Do... ...rliament! Don’t you think now it might lead to a baronetcy, T racy?” “Or a peerage,” quoth naughty Viola, out of reach of mother or Harold. “My Lord H... ...d I answered sharply that Sir James had nothing at all to do with reviving peerages; besides, if this one had ever existed, it would have been Harold’...

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...l intervention of Providence you have become Countess of Altringham in the peerage of Great Britain, and Baroness Dunsterville and d’Amblay in the pee...

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...en years to the Marquis de Listomere, one of those depu- ties who expect a peerage, she may also consider that such conduct will promote the ambitions...

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...Sir Gre- gory Grogram, who was a rich, energetic man, determined to have a peerage, and convinced that, should the Coalition fall to pieces, the Liber... ...gh very unwillingly, talk a little, and run on messages;—and they knew the peerage by heart, and could tell the details of every unfortunate marriage ... ... may say intimately. There isn’t a better man breathing.’ ‘A honour to the peerage?’ said the Prime Minister. ‘ An honour to humanity rather,’ said th... ...in that way,—one of the most popular men in the House, related to half the peerage, and a man who thinks so much of himself! I shouldn’t wonder if he ... ...hen was, although he had already driven by the unhappy circumstance of his peerage from the House of Commons which he loved so well, there was still o... ...colleagues, are weighed down at last by their own incapacity and sink into peerages. Now and again a man cannot bear the bondage of office, and flies ...

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...st rigid principles was to recognize no nobility in France but that of the peerage— the only families that might enjoy any privileges. “A nobility ber... ...in, in a quite constitutional order, to the younger sons of members of the peerage. According to him, the people had conquered a sufficiently large sh... ...Those who are rich look to becom- ing richer. The wealthiest member of our peerage has not half the income of the least rich lord in the English Upper... ... of my father’s fortune to make an eldest son of me. My father dreams of a peerage, like all who vote for the ministry. Indeed, it is promised him,” h... ...he lash of an illustrious writer, gave Monsieur Guiraudin de Longueville a peerage, with the title of Vicomte. Monsieur de Fontaine also obtained a pe...

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...ry for you, my poor old body, and a pedigree as au- thentic as many in the peerage-books. Peerage-books and pedigrees? What does she know about them? ...

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...nging for a canonry. The title of Canon had become to him very much what a peerage is to a plebeian minister. The prospect of an appoint- ment, hopes ... ...T roubert, interrupting her. “No, monsieur, he is no longer there.” (“That peerage and my nephew’s promotion force me to do base things,” thought she.... ...oubert again threatened the baron’s future career, and put in jeopardy the peerage of his uncle. He made in the salon of the archbishop, and before an...

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... be the same with the owner of this fair domain. He had been raised to the peerage by the decease of his father a few months before, and, as the Gener...

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...with men of business who expected their capital to bring them places and a peerage, as well as large interest. Then the hopes rising in a towering wav...

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... first. Secretaryships and that sort of thing? You might as well ask for a peerage. I’d be anything—I’m strong; a messen- ger or a coalheaver. I’d put...

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...ed 85 Thackeray at by Miss Rebecca Sharp—in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfis... ... a free-born Briton can do. He came home and looked out his history in the Peerage: he introduced his name into his daily conversation; he bragged abo... ...ily—good old English stock. I suppose you know Sir Pitt’s father refused a peerage. And you see how I am treated. I am pretty comfortable. Indeed it i... ...s in Portland Place, presentations at Court, and introductions to half the peerage, filled the minds of the young ladies; who talked of nothing but Ge... ... entertain- ments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. The day after George had his hint f... ...ook were taken out from the corner where they stood beside his copy of the Peerage, and the servants being rung up to the dining parlour, Osborne read...

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...ed 85 Thackeray at by Miss Rebecca Sharp—in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfis... ... a free-born Briton can do. He came home and looked out his history in the Peerage: he introduced his name into his daily conversation; he bragged abo... ...ily—good old English stock. I suppose you know Sir Pitt’s father refused a peerage. And you see how I am treated. I am pretty comfortable. Indeed it i... ...s in Portland Place, presentations at Court, and introductions to half the peerage, filled the minds of the young ladies; who talked of nothing but Ge... ... entertain- ments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. The day after George had his hint f... ...ook were taken out from the corner where they stood beside his copy of the Peerage, and the servants being rung up to the dining parlour, Osborne read... ...ng consulted with a herald in Long Acre, and picked the L— arms out of the peerage, when he set up his carriage fifteen years before. The General made... ...s emblazoned with the sham coat of arms which Osborne had assumed from the Peerage, with “Pax in bello” for a motto; that of the ducal house with whic... ... of her marriage. My Lord Gaunt married, as every person who frequents the Peerage knows, the Lady Blanche Thistlewood, a daughter of the noble house ...

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...rol of the middle-aged men of the Cham- ber and the septuagenarians of the peerage; it robbed them of the right to lay hands on a man of statesmanlike... ... ernment such signal service that they will have to make me count; for the peerage is the only thing I really care for. I want you fully to understand... ... else that would cause me to stand in your way; I am simply aiming for the peerage, which will enable me to marry a banker’s daughter with an income o... ...mber is elected, I will find a way to send in your name in a batch for the peerage.” “You are a man of honor, and I accept.” This is how it came to pa...

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...d estate. The King’s idea—and France does him scant justice—is to create a peerage as a national insti- tution analogous to the English peerage. T o r... ...nd now, paying ten thousand francs in taxes, he was doubly qualified for a peerage under the conditions of the new leg- islation. Some time before the... ...ort; he pointed out that by raising this enterprising agriculturist to the peerage, a guarantee would be offered to such important undertakings. Monsi...

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... Drum arms,” says Gus; “for I went and looked them out that minute in the ‘Peerage’”)—that the old lady turned out to be a cousin of mine, and that sh... ...table, between our two flutes on one side, my album, Gus’s “Don Juan” and “Peerage” on the other, I saw as follows:— 1. A basket of great red peaches,... ...hing. How Mrs. R. did talk to me about the West End to be sure! She had a “Peerage,” as you may be certain, and knew everything about the Drum family ...

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...as no lady so fair in all the land. Right courteous was the dame, noble of peerage, and good as she was fair. The king had heard much talk of this lad... ...iefs and rents. Now there were three brethren of right good birth and high peerage, kin to many a fair family, having to name Lot, Aguisel, and Urian.... ...s whom he esteemed for fair and ready speech. These two lords were of high peerage. Guerin of Chartres was one, and the other was that Boso, Earl of O...

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...he other, she meant election as deputy, re- sulting, for the noble, in the peerage, for the purveyor, in a receiver-generalship. A leading salon is a ... ...uier embittered the provincial nobility against the court nobility and the peerage; and finally he brought about the shocking adhesion of a strong par... ... means more certain than that of the guillotine, because less violent. The peerage without hered- ity; the National Guard, which puts on the same camp...