 Darner sitting in his chair, dead, with a pistol by him, and another in his pocket ! The ball had not gone through his head, nor made any report. On the table lay a scrap of paper with these words, " The people of the house are not to blame for what has...  The Life of Thomas Lord Lyttelton - Page 258by Thomas Frost - 1876 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1843 - 492 pages
...dead silence, and smelt gunpowder. He called, the master of the house came up, and found Mr. Damer sitting in his chair, dead, with a pistol by him,...justice and decency ! What a catastrophe for a man at thirty-two, heir to two and twenty thousand a-year ! We are persuaded lunacy, not distress, was... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 434 pages
...guinea at the bar, and ordering Orpheus to come up again in half-an-hour. When he returned, he found a dead silence, and smelt gunpowder. He called, the...justice and decency! What a catastrophe for a man at thirty two, heir to two and twenty thousand a-year! We are persuaded lunacy, not distress, was the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 432 pages
...dead silence, and smelt gunpowder. He called, the master of the house came up, and found Mr. Damer sitting in his chair, dead, with a pistol by him,...justice and decency ! What a catastrophe for a man at thirty two, heir to two and twenty thousand a-year! We are persuaded lunacy, not distress, was the... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1857 - 566 pages
...guinea .at the bar, and ordering Orpheus to come up again in half-an-hour. When he returned, he found a dead silence, and smelt gunpowder. He called, the...happened, which was my own act." This was the sole tribute hepaid to justice and decency ! What a catastrophe for a man at thirty two, heir to two and twenty... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 552 pages
...Mr. Damer sitting in his chair, dead, with a pistol by him, and another in his pocket ! The ball hud not gone through his head, nor made any report. On...justice and decency ! What a catastrophe for a man at thirty two, heir to two and twenty thousand a year ! We are persuaded lunacy, not distress, was... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1875 - 376 pages
...Darner sitting in his chair, dead, with a pistol by him, and 1 \Val pole's ' Letters,' vol. viii. p. 76. another in his pocket! The ball had not gone through...act.' This was the sole tribute he paid to justice and decency."1 It was to Mr. Darner's widow — whom Walpole, to use his own words, loved as his "own child"... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1880 - 552 pages
...dead silence, and smelt gunpowder. He called, the master of the house came up, and found Mr. Damer sitting in his chair, dead, with a pistol by him,...justice and decency ! What a catastrophe for a man at thirty two, heir to two and twenty thousand a year ! We arc persuaded lunacy, not distress, was... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1879 - 604 pages
...dead, with one pistol beside him and another in his pocket. The ball had not gone through his head or made any report. On the table lay a scrap of paper...of the house are not to blame for what has happened ; it was my own act . . . .' What a catastrophe for a man at thirty-two, heir to two-and-twenty thousand... | |
 | Edward Walford - Great Britain - 1887 - 336 pages
...ball had not gone through his head, or made any report. On the table lay a scrap of paper, inscribed with these words : ' " The people of the house are not to blame for what has happened, it was my own act . . ." What a catastrophe for a man of thirty-two, heir to two-and-twenty thousand... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1891 - 576 pages
...dead silence, and smelt gunpowder. He called, the master of the house came up, and found Mr. Damer sitting in his chair, dead, with a pistol by him and...justice and decency! What a catastrophe for a man at thirty two, heir to two and twenty thousand a year! We are persuaded lunacy, not distress, was the... | |
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