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" by particular desire,' to Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, a pretty little woman, a flirt, and a rattle ; indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered... "
Beaconsfield - Page 31
by Walter Sichel - 1904 - 212 pages
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Lord Beaconsfield's Correspondence with His Sister, 1832-1852

Benjamin Disraeli - Great Britain - 1886 - 302 pages
...A cheap literary satirical paper of the time. think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered ' that I had no doubt of it.' ... I did not observe many persons that I had seen before. People address you without ceremony. A lady...
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Lord Beaconsfield's Correspondence with His Sister, 1832-1852

Benjamin Disraeli - Great Britain - 1886 - 318 pages
...A cheap literary satirical paper of the time. think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered ' that I had no doubt of it.' ... I did not observe many persons that I had seen before. People address you without ceremony. A lady...
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Lord Beaconsfield's Letters, 1830-1852

Benjamin Disraeli - 1887 - 272 pages
...rattle ; indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered ' that I had no doubt of it.' . . . I did not observe many persons that I had seen before. People address you without ceremony. A...
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Worthies of Buckinghamshire and Men of Note of that County ...

Robert Gibbs - Buckinghamshire (England) - 1888 - 442 pages
...rattle ; indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered that I had no doubt of it." The "flirt" and the "rattle" was destined to become his wife; and the "silent, melancholy man" she...
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The Loves and Marriages of Some Eminent Persons, Volume 1

Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Biography - 1890 - 352 pages
...rattle ; indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she liked silent, melancholy men ! I answered, ' that I had no doubt of it!' " l Such was the impression made on Benjamin Disraeli by the future Lady Beaconsfield—a woman who...
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Disraeli in Outline: Being a Biography of Benjamin Disraeli, and an ...

Frederick Carroll Brewster - 1890 - 408 pages
...indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think uncqualed, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me she liked ' silent, melancholy men.' I answered that I had no doubt of it." It was about this time, also, that he met Lord Melbourne at Mrs. Norton's, and when Melbourne inquired...
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Liberty Review: A Magazine of Politics, Economics, and Sociology..., Volume 24

1908 - 324 pages
...gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me she 'liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered that I had no doubt of it." A little later we find him giving expression to the following characteristic and (for a young man of...
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The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 28

English periodicals - 1903 - 626 pages
...think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea," he wrote of her to his sister. " She told me she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered ' that I had no doubt of it.' " His wife's fortune gave him the position that was necessary to forward his ambition, and in time...
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The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Lothair, v. 2

Benjamin Disraeli - English literature - 1904 - 432 pages
...rattle; indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered ' that I had no doubt of it.' . . .I did not observe many persons that I had seen before. People address you without ceremony. A...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 294

English periodicals - 1903 - 638 pages
...rattle ; indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me that she ' liked silent, melancholy men.' I answered ' that I had no doubt about it.1 " The next year he met " Joseph Bonaparte and his beautiful daughter," and the same season...
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