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...a- tions that had trot this earth before us. The Parliament of living men, Lords and Commons united, what a miserable array against the Upper and Lowe... ...ousy was a green-eyed monster, nobody could know better than I did. “O, my lord, beware of jealousy!” Yes; and my lord couldn’t possibly have more rea... ...on for bewaring of it than myself; indeed, well it would have been had his lordship run 65 Autobiographic Sketches away from all the ministers of jea... ...James Burnett, better known to the English public by his judicial title of Lord Monboddo. The Burnetts of Monboddo, I have often heard, were a race di... ...of the last cen- tury, we had a saying, 15 in reference to the Harveys of Lord Bristol’s family, equally distinguished for wit, beauty, and eccentric... ...wreck were seven times mul- tiplied. It was notorious that Mrs. Lee had no protector or guide, natural or legal. Her marriage had, in fact, instead of...

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...maged in his mind, he sees restored In peace and joy the people’s rightful lord; The proud oppressors fly the vengeful sword. While his fond soul thes... ...abundance crowned the royal board, What time this dome revered her prudent lord; Who now (so Heaven decrees) is doom’d to mourn, Bitter constraint, er... ...acynthas’ sylvan reign; Ev’n with presumptuous hope her bed to ascend, The lords of Ithaca their right pretend. She seems attentive to their pleaded v... ...decent grief the royal dead deplored, For the chaste queen select an equal lord. Then let revenge your daring mind employ, By fraud or force the suito... ...efrain, And in the public woe forget your own; You weep not for a perish’d lord alone. What Greeks new wandering in the Stygian gloom, Wish your Ulyss... ...arce sure of life, look round, and trembling move T o the bright altars of Protector Jove. Meanwhile Ulysses search’d the dome, to find If yet there l...

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...es in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chancellor or Arch- bishop of Canterbury we do, theoretically and abst... ...nd play billiards. It was a fairly good club,—with a sprinkling of Liberal lordlings, a couple of dozen of members of Parliament who had been made to ... ...he only success or failure which she anticipates. The young man may become Lord Chancellor, or at any rate earn his bread comfortably as a country cou... ...- lor of the Exchequer. When he was transferred, perforce, to the House of Lords, he had,—as it is not uncommon in such cases,—accepted a lower politi... ...ased the Duchess, who was ambitious both on her own behalf and that of her lord,—and who thought that a Duke of Omnium should be nothing in the Govern... ...ell herself that, as he would not protect himself, she was bound to be his protector. Yes;—she would 675 Anthony Trollope protect him, though she cou...

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... married the two daughters of a man from Cumberland named Lewthwayte, whom Lord Erymanth had turned out of one of his farms for his inso- lence and ra... ...ing them to a sort of fiend. My mother’s old friends, Lady Diana Tracy and Lord Erymanth, her brother, used to bemoan with me the com- ing of this lad... ...in a penal colony, and, no doubt, uneducated except in its coarsest vices. Lord Erymanth told at endless length all the advice he had given my father ... ..., who had in- herited the stock and the last years of a lease of a farm on Lord Erymanth’s property; he had done a good deal for it, and expended mone... ... man of bold, indepen- dent northern tongue, and gave great offence to his lord- ship, who was used to be listened to with a sort of feudal deference.... ...o Eustace, who, in spite of all his vaunting, dreaded new scenes without a protector, and I set myself to persuade him that it was due to his cousin n... ...hernalia, but I did my best to console the old lady for the absence of her protector, and I began at last to learn, as best I could from her bewildere...

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... “Go on.” “My dear,” said Mr. Wardour at last, “you know that your cousin, Lord Caergwent, was killed by an accident last week.” “Yes, I know,” said K... ...ed, “there is an immense fat red and gold book at Mr. Brown’s, all full of Lords and Ladies.” “Oh, a Peerage!” said Mary; “but even you, my Lady Count... ...rced herself to try to be more warm and kind to him, and not have inflamed Lord Caergwent’s displeasure when he mar- ried imprudently. Her sister Jane... ...atharine Aileve Umfraville becoming the head of the family; for then young Lord Umfraville was in his full health and strength. And why DID Lady Barba... ...age. “Here is our niece,” said Lady Barbara. “Katharine, come and speak to Lord de la Poer.” Kate liked his looks, and the way in which he held out hi... ... how concerned she was that her niece should be so un- manageable; and her protector answered, “Not that, I assure you! She was a very nice little com...

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...he lady’s letter had been much less urgent, who could have with- stood her lord’s postscript: ‘If you could see the little pale 13 Beechcroft At Rock... ...ysie, who had been to the ball at Rotherwood, should go again to live with lords and ladies, while she went to a nasty day-school with butchers’ and b... ... the nicest, because one is not bothered to take so much care of them; and lords and ladies aren’t a bit better to play with than, other people. In fa... ...ew’s built.’ ‘Yes, my dear. It was the great work and thought with him and Lord Rotherwood in those days that look so bright now,’ said Aunt Ada. ‘Yes... ... branch of Rockquay, where the managers, assisted by the funds advanced by Lord Rotherwood and that great invisible potentate, the head of the marble ... ...some of Mr. Edgar’s boys were about, the child naturally regarded her as a protector. Maura was quite as pretty as her elders, and had more of a south... ... the present homage and shrinking from the future plunge away from all her protectors. Though the strong, manly will over- powered hers, and made her ...

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...w his son-in-law disappointed of the hopes they had placed on the nameless protector, he tried, for the sake of his daughter, to repair the secret los... ...ess expectation made Madame Rabourdin at last understand that the paternal protector of her husband must have died, and that his will, if it ever ex- ... ...g-clerk; one is as powerful as the other in an arena outside of which each lords it in his own way. Education, equally distributed through the masses,... ...der the blow of a sudden and unexpected disaster, wanted to make sure of a protector and he had come to announce privately that in a few days he shoul... ...ples are not to be shaken.” “Dear me!” said Falleix, “do men of merit need protectors and influence to get places in the government service? I am glad... ...de-camp and a chief of staff. This ministerial apprentice decamps when his protector leaves office, returning sometimes when he re- turns. If the mini... ...h he noted down all the striking events of his day. Du Bruel told him that Lord Byron did the same thing. This likeness filled Poiret junior with deli... ...ikeness filled Poiret junior with delight, and led him to buy the works of Lord Byron, translated by Chastopalli, of which he did not understand a wor... ...pleases certain clear- sighted personages at the palace. If I were a great lord, in- stead of being, as I am, a mere country gentleman who seems to be...

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... chief of that band of Scottish chiv- alry who accompanied James, the Good Lord Douglas, on 6 The Talisman his expedition to the Holy Land with the h... ...hat the kingis wants were swyche, To the steward he spake privyliche— “Our lord the king sore is sick, I wis, After porck he alonged is; Ye may none f... ...as the heathen shrew. Before the king it was forth brought: Quod his men, ‘Lord, we have pork sought; Eates and sups of the brewis soote,[Sweet] Thoro... ... and let him see. He fell on knees, and made a cry— ‘Lo, here the head! my Lord, mercy!’” 10 The Talisman The cook had certainly some reason to fear ... ...ought in shippes and in barge, More gold and silver with me, Than has your lord, and swilke three. To his treasure have I no need! But for my love I y... ...hus void of means and of men, canst offer, as thou didst of late, to be my protector and security in the camp of thy brethren?” “Know, Saracen,” said ... ...- ing solemnly the verse of the Koran, “God be our guide, and Mohammed our protector, in the desert as in the watered field,” the whole cavalcade was ...

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... proposed to add a life of the author to the London edition pub- lished at Lord Carteret’s instance in 1738. All traces of the person- ality of Cervan... ... city, he built himself a castle which he called Cervatos, because “he was lord of the solar of Cervatos in the Mon- tana,” as the mountain region ext... ...to better treatment than this. The London edition of 1738, commonly called Lord Carteret’s from having been suggested by him, was not a mere edition d... ...ady, and in a humble, submissive voice say, ‘I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never... ...he had agreed to grant the boon demanded of him. “I looked for no less, my lord, from your High Magnificence,” replied Don Quixote, “and I have to tel... ... his hopes of obtaining possession of me, or at least to secure additional protectors to watch over me, and this intelli- gence or suspicion made him ... ...ave to go for relief to my parents’ house, even if I leave yours without a protector; for the one you left me, if indeed he deserved that title, has, ... ...ho desired the lady Micomicona to place herself by his side, as he was her protector. Luscinda and Zoraida took their places next her, opposite to the... ... Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of injustice, the righter of wrongs, the protector of damsels, the terror of giants, and the winner of battles?” “Th...

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... he breathe his vow: ‘Here sleeps a self-devoted bride, Of old to save her lord she died. 13 Yo n g e She is a spirit now. Hail, bright and blest o... ...l: ‘Come, ye children, and hearken to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that lusteth to live, And would fain see good days? Le... ...y brought it?’ And as a hallowed and precious gift, he poured out unto the Lord the water obtained at the 18 A Book of Golden Deeds price of such per... ...an army soon 21 Yo n g e took the fort, and then, in the gallant words of Lord Macaulay’s ballad,— ‘Thus in all the Senate There was no heart so bol... ...followers as they rested in their mountain home. But their bitter foe, the Lord of Lorn, was always in pur- suit of them, and, near the head of the Ta... ... Holy Sepulcher, and in the mean- time fulfilling their old mission as the protectors and nurses of the weak. All the Mediterranean Sea was infested b...

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...the contest as I am myself. Alas, you, who would have been such a powerful protector to me in the days of your health and strength, can now only sympa... ...n princess; he will want a crown and an immense fortune.” “No; these grand lords on the other side of the Alps frequently marry into plain families; l... ...u remain so long unsolved. I believe, while the Countess G—— takes you for Lord Ruthven, my mother imagines you to be Cagliostro or the Count Saint-Ge... ...m, I assure you I shall be happy to see him.” “I will obey your orders, my lord.” “Good-by.” “Until Saturday, when I may expect you, may I not?” “Yes,... ...e person called the Count of Monte Cristo is an intimate ac- quaintance of Lord Wilmore, a rich foreigner, who is sometimes seen in Paris and who is t... ...0 The Count of Monte Cristo composed, with a prie-Dieu, all its furniture. Lord Wilmore resided in Rue Fontaine-Saint-George. He was one of those Engl... ... witness this old man, apparently a mere useless burden, becoming the sole protector, support, and adviser of the lovers who were both young, beautifu... ...o their last abode two of the number of the old aristocracy — the greatest protectors of commerce and sincere devotees to their prin- 140 The Count o... ...ather’s roof, M. Morrel can visit me in the presence of my good and worthy protector, if we still feel that the union we contemplated will be likely t...

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...s of land.” “Oh! I believe the girls fancy that it is at least as large as Lord Coldhurst’s.” “Yes, I was in hopes that they would have heard nothing ... ...be nice friends for you. I met one of them before, when she was staying at Lord Rotherwood’s. But I am afraid your boxes are hardly come yet. Still, y... ...e others. “There is a lovely little chapel there, beautifully fitted up by Lord Rotherwood and Sir Jasper Merrifield, for the hamlet,” she said. “How ... ...om, and the word “Goody” passed between them. “T empered by respect for my Lord and Sir Jasper,” added Agatha. 20 Modern Broods “And avoiding St. Ken... ...s known was that there were Sir Jasper and Lady Merrifield, connections of Lord Rotherwood, who owned most of the Rockstone property, and who with his... ...to walk down together, though the little girl still adhered closely to her protector’s hand. “Poor Field’s little one? Yes, of course.” “But tell me! ... ...e her throw herself over Angela’s shoulder and hide her face; and when her protector tried to turn her round and reason her into courtesy, she began t...

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... of such customers; indeed as many as I could entertain. Here hath been my lord—,” and then she repeated over a catalogue of names and titles, many of... ... had before been against him. with which the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to d... ...e second mali cious attempt succeeded better than the first; for my land lord had no sooner received the young lady in his arms, than his feet, whic... ... —But yet, when I consider one thing”—“When you consider,” cries the land lord contemptuously—”Come, pray let’s hear what you con sider.”—”Why, it i... ...ething eagerly. “Hath not your ladyship heard it, then?” cries the land lord; “nay, like enough, for I heard it only a few minutes ago; and if I ha... ... the lady in secret, and without publickly assum ing the character of her protector. Nay, to prevent any other person from seeing him in this light, ... ...e wretch upon earth; if my dear aunt forsakes me, where shall I look for a protector?” “My dear niece,” cries she, “you will have a very good protecto... ...niece,” cries she, “you will have a very good protector in his lordship; a protector whom nothing but a hankering after that vile fellow Jones can mak...

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...this occasion. “Mademoiselle accepts your proposal,” she said to the land- lord, who jumped as if suddenly awakened by her words. “What proposal?” he ... ...o describe it. After this, Mademoiselle de V erneuil, addressing the land- lord, asked to be shown to a room, saw the staircase, and disappeared with ... ..., glass, and china were not too dingy. Corentin saw at once that the land- lord had, as they say familiarly, cut himself into quarters to please the s... ...to say than: “Mademoiselle, I am at your or- ders.” “Then you are to be my protector, in place of the com- mander, who retires; is that so?” “No, my s... ...minds me! My escort and I,” she asked, in a slightly satirical tone, “your protectors, in short,—will they be safe here?” “Yes, on the word of a gentl... ...or. “Are they they king’s defenders? Where are the gentlemen and the great lords?” “Where?” said the marquis, coolly, “they are in all the courts of E... ... liberated king allowed her to be burned. Such men are the anointed of the Lord, and there is danger in meddling with sacred things. Let God take care... ...is’s absence, such a threat- ening character that Marie, alone without her protector, 133 Balzac might well fancy she read her death-warrant in the e... ...ded? we shall never get away! and who will protect you here?” “Y ou have a protector of your own,” said Marie maliciously, giving in an undertone Marc...

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...O L O LAXT AXT AXT AXT AXTON. ON. ON. ON. ON. MY ROUTE, after parting from Lord Westport at Birming- ham, lay, as I have mentioned in the “Autobiograp... ...raphic Sketches,” through Stamford to Laxton, the Northamptonshire seat of Lord Carbery. From Stamford, which I had reached by some intolerable old co... ...tors, it seemed, at that time to Laxton, beside my sister and myself, were Lord and Lady Massey. They were understood to be domesticated at Laxton for... ...ough unauthorized by anything ever hinted to me by Lady Carbery) was, that Lord Massey might probably be under some cloud of pecuniary embarrassments,... ...ginally by no shadow of any earthly interest, killed by ennui, all at once Lord Massey had fallen passionately in love with a fair young countrywoman,... ..., or specially authorized, by visible right and power, to interfere as her protector. The semi-Asiatic power of Russia, from the era of the Czar Peter... ...ipus in a far more significant manner, as one abandoned by all his natural protectors, thrown upon the chances of a wilderness, and upon the mercies o... ...l basis. Throwing off all the power and splendor bor- rowed from his royal protectors at Corinth, trusting exclu- sively to his native powers as a man...

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...-aux-Fayes, over which, as you know, the nephew of our friend des Lupeaulx lords it. Tall forests lying on the horizon, along vast slopes which skirt ... ...he marrow out of your bones that the middle-class folks are worse than the lords? Mark my words, when that affair happens, my children, the Soudrys, t... ...lks free? We still belong to the same 72 Sons of the Soil parish, and its lord is always there,—I call him Toil. The hoe, our sole property, has neve... ...l. The hoe, our sole property, has never left our hands. Let it be the old lords or the present taxes which take the best of our earn- ings, the fact ... ...heep by the force of circumstances, as our fathers were by the rule of the lords. As for me, what do I care what shackles they are that keep me here? ... ... who by that time had become a colonel, asked for a brigade for his former protector, and later still he solicited the post we have named for the youn... .... Soudry, 158 Sons of the Soil Rigou, and Gaubertin, who were the special protectors of the family, had warned Tonsard that he must not expect to sav... ... have a strange fear, pos- sibly instinctive, of trusting to their natural protectors under the like circumstances. Genevieve had heard Pere Niseron t... ...fe’s foster-father, always at hand, La Pechina need never go out without a protector.” “I will tell Monsieur to make up this extra expense to you,” sa...

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...ome jolly good song fit to fetch a stroke home with! Why, I heard my young Lord say, when Shakspeare was a butcher, he used to make speeches at the ca... ...Why, he was a poet!’ cried the girl, indignantly. ‘If you know better than Lord Fitzjocelyn, you may!’ said the boy. ‘I couldn’t have thought it!’ sig... ...is break- fast-hour, so I thought I’d just run up and ax you when my young Lord goes up to Oxford. 5 Yo n g e ‘He is gone,’ said Charlotte; ‘he was h... ... down in Ferny dell—there’s a steep bank down to the water. Well, my young Lord was very keen about building a kind of steps there in the sum- mer, an... ...! I was so mortal angry, I would not go back to the work; and I believe my Lord forgot it—and then he went back to college; and Frampton and Gervas, t... ...bove board than let it go on by stealth,’ said Louis. ‘You are her natural protector.’ ‘So much the more reason against it! I ought to wish her to for... ...red and he watched, he spoke absently to Clara, but felt as if robbed of a protector, when she was summoned up-stairs to attend to her packing, and Ma... ...ould hardly answer it to him- self that she should remain without any male protector. ‘Oh yes, pray remain to defend her,’ said Louis, much amused, an... ...ent and mo- tionless through the whole crisis, and though she clung to her protector’s arm, it was not with nervous disabling terror, even in the frig...

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...nnisburgh affair’ are not verbally malicious. He gets wind of the terms of Lord Dannisburgh’s will and testament, not- ing them without comment. The o... ...to her columns, ultimately found indigestible. His exhibition of his enemy Lord Dannisburgh, is of the class of noble portraits we see swinging over i... ...erformance. We would think so, and still the shadow is round our thoughts. Lord Dannisburgh was a man of min- isterial tact, official ability, Pagan m... ... ancient service of watering the dry and drying the damp, to the toast of ‘Lord Larrian, God bless him! he’s an honour to the old country!’ and a bit ... ...ghter, a drink, a deeper sigh, settling into con- versation upon the brave Lord Larrian’s deeds, and an Irish regiment he favoured—had no taste for th... ...half- home with her friend thenceforward denied to her, she had accepted a protector, called husband—rashly, past credence, in the retrospect; but it ...

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...ure,’ thinks T wemlow, ‘and I am!’) ‘—Are you of opinion that your cousin, Lord Snigsworth, would give his name as a Member of my Committee? I don’t g... ... his name as a Member of my Committee? I don’t go so far as to ask for his lordship; I only ask for his name. Do you think he would give me his name?’... ...eneering, not previously aware of having any, ‘are identical with those of Lord Snigsworth, and perhaps as a matter of public feeling and public princ... ...nigsworth, and perhaps as a matter of public feeling and public principle, Lord Snigswotth would give me his name.’ ‘It might be so,’ says T wemlow; ‘... ...ve any objection to write down to Snigsworthy Park, and ask this favour of Lord Snigsworth? Of course if it were granted I should know that I owed it ... ...es of the misery-making money. I will let it go to my and my sister’s only protectors and friends.’ When the snare into which he fell so outstripped h... ...e more, at another glance. ‘Mr W rayburn, pray , pray , leave me with this protector. And one thing more. Pray, pray be careful of yourself.’ ‘Mysteri... ... excused for asking, in the elderly gentleman’s presence, who is this kind protector?’ ‘ A trustworthy friend,’ said Lizzie. ‘I will relieve him of hi...

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...dying of consumption, and a young marquess cousin is, perhaps, inevitable. Lord Rotherwood was Mr. Mohun’s ward, and having a dull home of his own, fo... ...he leading member of the group. It should, perhaps, also be mentioned that Lord Rotherwood’s greatest friend was also Lilias’s favourite brother, Clau... ...ame to London, there was a calling, but all very stu- pid, and a dining at Lord Rotherwood’s; but she never would, except once, when I can hardly reme... ... love, and titles, and all that nonsense, though father is first cousin to Lord Rotherwood.’ ‘And you never saw any of them?’ ‘Yes, Aunt Lilias was at... ...y, who is a very great swell indeed. Her 11 Yo n g e husband was a canon, Lord Henry Grey; but he is dead, and she lives at Brighton, a regular fat, ... ...al. ‘Besides, how foolish it would be to worry myself when I have two such protectors! It was very good in you, Rotherwood, I only hope we shall take ... ...prisoner and her young friend without the knowledge of the child’s natural protectors. ‘A perfect ro- mance,’ he said, ‘I believe the prisoner is unma...