 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 454 pages
...distinction between a Percy and a Finch. The Duchess Charlotte once familiarly tapped him on the shoulder with her fan, he turned round, and, with an indignant...profound respect. The two youngest daughters had used to stand and watch, alternately, whilst he slept in an afternooon;Lady Charlotte, being tired, sat... | |
 | Mark Noble - Great Britain - 1806 - 446 pages
...distinction between a Percy and a Finch. The Duchess Charlotte once familiarly tapped him on the shoulder with her fan, he turned round, and, with an indignant..." My first duchess was a Percy, and she never took suchaliberty." His children obeyed his mandates with profound respect. The two youngest daughters had... | |
 | 1807 - 588 pages
...Finch) once familiarly tapped him on the shoulder with her fan, he turned round, and, with an ind.gnant sour countenance, said " My first Duchess was a Percy...children obeyed his mandates with profound respect. Tht two younges. daughters had used to stand and watcii, alternately, while h" slept in an afternoon... | |
 | England - 1822 - 932 pages
...the shoulder with her fan ; when he turned round, and with a look of marked displeasure, observed, " My first duchess was a Percy, and she never took such a liberty." His children were taught to obey hi" injunctions with the most profound respect. The two youngest of his daughters... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...the shoulder with her fan ; he turned round indignantly and said, " My first duchess was a I'ercy, and she never took such a liberty." His children obeyed his mandates with slavish respect. His two younger daughters were required to stand and watch, alternately, whilst he... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...second duchess once familiarly tapped him on the shoulder with her fan ; he turned round indignantly and , я liberty." His children obeyed his mandates with slavish respect. His two younger daughters were... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1839 - 608 pages
..." once tapped him familiarly on the shoulder with her fan ; he turned round, and with an indignant countenance said, " My first Duchess was a Percy, and she never took such a liberty." Whatever had been the early opinion entertained of the Duke by the Duchess of Marlborough, she became,... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...vast distinction between a Percy and a Finch. The Duchess once familiarly tapped him on the shoulder with her fan ; he turned round, and with an indignant,...profound respect ; the two youngest daughters had used to stand alternately whilst he slept of an afternoon, Lady Charlotte, being tired, sat down ; the Duke... | |
 | sir John Bernard Burke - 1849 - 650 pages
...vast distinction between a Percy and a Finch. The Duchess once familiarly tapped him on the shoulder with her fan ; he turned round, and, with an indignant,...said, "My first Duchess was a Percy, and she never dared to take such a liberty." His children obeyed his mandates with profound respect. The two youngest... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...Duchess once tapped him familiarly on the shoulder with her fan ; he turned round, and with an indignant countenance, said : " My first Duchess was a Percy, and she never took such a liberty." — Ibid, vol. ii, p. 374. The same Peer always -intimated his commands to his P servants by signs,... | |
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My first Duchess was a Percy, and she never took such a liberty." His children obeyed his mandates with profound respect ; the two youngest... 
