Famous Persons and PlacesC. Scribner, 1854 - 492 sidor |
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Sida 55 - The duchess, a tall and very handsome woman, with a smile of the most winning sweetness, received me at the door, and I was presented successively to every person present. Dinner was announced immediately, and the difficult question of precedence being sooner settled than I had ever seen it before in so large a party, we passed through files of servants to the dining-room.
Sida 60 - I had left glittering with jewels and dressed in all the attractions of fashion, appeared with the simplest coiffure and a toilet of studied plainness. The ten or twelve noblemen present were engrossed with their letters or newspapers over tea and toast ; and in them, perhaps, the transformation was still greater. The soigne man of fashion of the night before, faultless in costume and distinguished in his appearance, in the full force of the term, was enveloped now in a coat of fustian, with a coarse...
Sida 56 - I have been struck everywhere in England with the beauty of the higher classes, and as I looked around me upon the aristocratic company at the table, I thought I never had seen ' heaven's image double-stamped as man and noble
Sida 33 - Roslin ; for he kept a great court, and was royally served at his own table in vessels of gold and silver ; Lord Dirleton being his master-household, Lord Borthwick his cupbearer, and Lord Fleming his carver ; in whose absence they had deputies to attend, viz. Steward laird of Drumlanrig, Tweedie laird of Drumerline, and Sandilands laird of Calder. He had his halls, and other apartments, richly adorned with embroidered hangings.
Sida 53 - And off tripped my slender gentleman with his laced jacket, giving the fire a terrible stir-up in his way out, and turning back to inform me that the dinner-hour was seven precisely. ' It was a mild, bright afternoon, quite warm for the end of an English September ; and with a fire in the room, and a soft sunshine pouring in at the windows, a seat by the open casement was far from disagreeable. I passed the time till the sun set...
Sida 67 - ... privileges, which, as a novelty, was far from disagreeable. I could not at the time bring myself to feel, what perhaps would be more poetical and republican, that a ride in the wild and unfenced forest of my own country would have been more to my taste. The second afternoon of my arrival, I took a seat in the carriage with Lord A , and we followed the Duchess, who drove herself in a pony-chaise, to visit a school on the estate. Attached to a small gothic chapel, a few minutes...
Sida 62 - The chief huntsman and his family, and perhaps a gamekeeper or two, lodge' on the premises, and the dogs are divided by palings across the court. I was rather startled to be introduced into the small enclosure with a dozen gigantic blood-hounds, as high as my breast, the keeper's whip in my hand the only defence. I was not easier for the man's assertion that, without it, they would " hae the life oot o
Sida 59 - ... cravat; the Duchess was in a plain morning-dress, and cap of the simplest character ; and the high-born women about the table, whom I had left glittering with jewels, and dressed in all the attractions of fashion, appeared with the simplest coiffure and a toilet of studied plainness. The ten or twelve noblemen present were engrossed with their letters or newspapers over tea and toast ; and in them, perhaps, the transformation was still greater. The...
Sida 54 - Duke himself a stranger to me, except through the kind letter of introduction lying upon the table. I was sitting by the fire imagining forms and faces for the different persons who had been named to me, when there was a knock at the door, and a tall, white-haired gentleman, of noble physiognomy, but singularly cordial address, entered, with the broad red riband of a duke across his breast, and welcomed me most heartily to the castle.
Sida 55 - The walls were lined with full-length family pictures, from old knights in armor to the modern dukes in kilt of the Gordon plaid ; and on the sideboards stood services of gold plate, the most gorgeously massive, and the most beautiful in workmanship I have ever seen. There were, among the vases, several large coursing-cups...