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...into an English family. She was christened Vera, and in due course of years she married and became the Countess Cathcart. The action of the story now comes to a time about five years ago. The Countess, leaving her wedded husband, took a journey to South Africa with the Earl of Craven. In due course Earl Cathcart divorced the Countess, naming the Earl of Craven as corespondent. There was, however, no "ever after" clause in the elopers' contract, and after a time the Earl of Craven returned to his wife and was reconciled with her. The details...
Meantime a number of things had happened. She asked, "What about the Earl?" and U. S. women echoed the cry: "What! A double standard?" It was not a case of double standard. The immigration officials simply had not discovered that he was guilty of moral turpitude. He was questioned in Manhattan, was quite open about what had taken place five years back. Next morning a warrant was issued for his arrest, but by that time he was in Montreal. The Countess indicated that the Earl was a craven; she was not going to leave the U. S., even if only...
...know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction." Elizabeth would only offer vague suggestions as to the English succession and renew her futile suggestion of Dudley, whom she had lovingly tickled under his ruff as he knelt before her to be made Baron Denbigh and Earl of Leicester...
Every morning at seven, the Weather permitting, His Grace the Earl of Rosebery, Baron Primrose, Baron Epsom of Epsom, rides out over Epsom Downs in what the Times has declared to be "perhaps the only private carriage in England which is still guided by postilions...
Archibald Philip Primrose is now in his 78th year. He was Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. He is the last surviving Earl to have held the Premiership before Britain's gradual democratization rendered that office practically reserved to commoners. He was the first Briton ever to own a horse which won the Derby while its owner was Prime Minister, an altitude of bliss which only British sovereigns who have tried to "win the Derby" and failed can fully appreciate. In 1878 the Times and many another British newspaper listed in slightly over two columns "the more notable wedding presents...