Lord Shelburne proposed them to his august colleague, and the marquis, whose faults, if he had any, were an excess of mildness, and an unsuspecting simplicity, perhaps too readily complied.

Besides that, Marquis, the excess of precautions a woman takes against you, is strong evidence of how much you are feared.

The disasters and the humiliation which attended the American war compelled the ministry to resign, and the Marquis of Rockingham became prime minister in 1782, and Burke, the acknowledged leader of his party, became paymaster of the forces,an office at one time worth £25,000 a year, before the reform which Burke had instigated.

The Marquis of Salisbury, in the early days that I speak of, was a kind-hearted chairman, and would never allow the quibble of the lawyer to stand in the way of justice to the prisoner.

He hath spoken contemptuously of the Star-Chamber,and that, my lord Marquis, as you well know, is an offence, which cannot be passed over.

This Marquis of Lothian was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Culloden, who sullied his character as a soldier and a nobleman by the cruelties which he exercised on the vanquished.

It's still the seat of the Saint Berthè family, and the present Marquis, a dear friend of ours, is such a wonderful, fine old noblemanso simple and gracious and full of epigrams.

A marquis, properly regarded, is not so much a nascent duke as a magnified earl.

The nobles were the Marquis de St. Evrémonde and his brother; and the Marquis was the father of Charles Darnay.

" "So we should, lad, but the Marquis is an able general, wily and brave.

The Marquis was grandmamma's lover, butbut not a common person like Augustusfor clothes!

Now the Marquis of Carrara, deeming that Michelangelo had developed the quarries at Pietra Santa out of Florentine patriotism, became his enemy, and would not suffer him to return to Carrara, for certain blocks which had been excavated there: all of which proved the source of great loss to Michelangelo.

This Marquis of Lothian was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Culloden, who sullied his character as a soldier and a nobleman by the cruelties which he exercised on the vanquished.

But does it make any real difference, Mademoiselle, except that I know now that the Marquis was a man of very keen discrimination?" "Are you mad?" cried Mademoiselle, "I tell you it is not your father.

[Sidenote: A Cure for a Fit] Victorine told them the Marquis was "Beau comme l'Archange Michel," and had for her "une brûlante dévotion!"