The things we do!

So my lord's lady-mother, and my lord's sisters, and his captains, and
his players of billiards, and the toadies of his august person, all
performed obeisance to his bride-elect, and never questioned the will of
the young chieftain. What were the private comments of the ladies of the
family we had no means of knowing; but it may naturally be supposed that
his lordship's gentlemen-in-waiting, Captain Henchman, Jack Todhunter,
and the rest, had many misgivings of their own respecting their patrons
change in life, and could not view without anxiety the advent of a
mistress who might reign over him and them, who might possibly not like
their company, and might exert her influence over her husband to oust
these honest fellows from places in which they were very comfortable. The
jovial rogues had the run of my lord's kitchen, stables, cellars, and
cigar-boxes. A new marchioness might hate hunting, smoking, jolly
parties, and toad-eaters in general, or might bring into the house
favourites of her own.


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