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...naturally, as we scudded along that evening, the mare and I, my thoughts turned on my future companion. They could not give me one of the boys. Either of my sisters? Well, perhaps. Mrs. Earl? Not if I knew it. I'm afraid she would be dangerous with a lone man. Miss Earl? If - But would her mother let her? But I kept my courage up, and indulged in castles in Spain of a mild type...
...when the first batch of ladies came down, I mildly suggested that we should immediately begin the embarkation, - a long and serious task, I assured them. To which dear Mary would have yielded, but Mrs. Earl thought they would wait for the others; "and, I'm sure, Master Morris, you and I need all the heat we can get before our ride...
...fair Miss Ethel if she would go with my detachment, and was bearing her off in triumph when the dragon stopped us with hurried explanations that a cutter-sleigh was the coldest thing in the world, and that Ethel could not bear it; in fine, that she, the Widow Earl, would and should sacrifice herself and ride with...
...Presidents at Oxford there are thirty who are marked as M. P.'s, or as in some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities or the Church. Among the officers at Cambridge have been Macaulay, Earl Grey, Chief Justice Cockburn, Bulwer Lytton, and Archbishop Trench; at Oxford, Earl Stanhope, Gladstone, the Earl of Elgin, the Duke of Newcastle, Robert Lowe, the Earl of Dufferin; there may be other names which I have passed over in ignorance...