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... Young : Ap- pointment of Lord St. Cyres as Deputy - Chairman - Letters from Lord Iddesleigh , Mr. Chamberlain , and Mr. Gladstone - Fare- well Dinner at Downing Street - Quotation from Sidney Her- bert - Lord Herschell's Visit to ...
... Young : Ap- pointment of Lord St. Cyres as Deputy - Chairman - Letters from Lord Iddesleigh , Mr. Chamberlain , and Mr. Gladstone - Fare- well Dinner at Downing Street - Quotation from Sidney Her- bert - Lord Herschell's Visit to ...
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... young married ladies scarcely ever received men visitors , or danced except on rare occasions . Late in the forties . and in the fifties five o'clock teas were just coming into . vogue , the old Duchess of Bedford's being , as I consid ...
... young married ladies scarcely ever received men visitors , or danced except on rare occasions . Late in the forties . and in the fifties five o'clock teas were just coming into . vogue , the old Duchess of Bedford's being , as I consid ...
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... young people , and must still have been seen by the present generation who can recollect Lady Mildred Beresford Hope's pony carriage with two outriders . My father was very fond of taking me to see a small property he had , called ...
... young people , and must still have been seen by the present generation who can recollect Lady Mildred Beresford Hope's pony carriage with two outriders . My father was very fond of taking me to see a small property he had , called ...
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... young gentlemen were who cast " reflections " on the young ladies in the vicinity . John Bidwell , the head of the Consular Department , used to get into a paroxysm of rage at the audacity of organ - grinders who invaded the privacy of ...
... young gentlemen were who cast " reflections " on the young ladies in the vicinity . John Bidwell , the head of the Consular Department , used to get into a paroxysm of rage at the audacity of organ - grinders who invaded the privacy of ...
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... young John Bidwell , who was the most riotous and mischievous of all the lot . On one occasion he was left for a few hours in charge of the French Department , in the absence of his chief , and employed the vacant hour by dressing ...
... young John Bidwell , who was the most riotous and mischievous of all the lot . On one occasion he was left for a few hours in charge of the French Department , in the absence of his chief , and employed the vacant hour by dressing ...
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