The things we do!

"
"I fear, Maria, there is too much truth in what you say," sighs the
Colonel, drumming on a book on the drawing-room table, and looking down
sees it is a great, large, square, gilt Peerage, open at FARINTOSH,
MARQUIS OF.--Fergus Angus Malcolm Mungo Roy, Marquis of Farintosh, Earl
of Glenlivat, in the peerage of Scotland; also Earl of Rossmont, in that
of the United Kingdom. Son of Angus Fergus Malcolm, Earl of Glenlivat,
and grandson and heir of Malcolm Mungo Angus, first Marquis of Farintosh,
and twenty-fifth Earl, etc. etc.
"You have heard the news regarding Ethel?" remarks Hobson.
"I have just heard," says the poor Colonel.
"I have a letter from Anne this morning," Maria continues. "They are of
course delighted with the match. Lord Farintosh is wealthy, handsome; has
been a little wild, I hear; is not such a husband as I would choose for
my darlings, but poor Brian's family have been educated to love the
world; and Ethel no doubt is flattered by the prospects before her.


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