 All that she was sure of was, that the Countess had an unfortunate and unenviable power of holding people who did not belong to her immediate family circle at arm's length — dangling them, as it were, by the very tips of the fingers, and contriving...  "Noblesse Oblige;": An English Story of To-day - עמוד 49מאת Sarah Tytler - 1871 - 604 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
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...hangings, which had been in process from the date of the South-Sea scheme. Learned enibroideresses still living could tell, by tracing the new stitches...for tiger lilies — when each countess had taken die vanguard as a blooming bride, and when she had relinquished the dilatory needle as a faded dowager.... | |
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