Against the wrinkly mirror stood pictures of General Kitchener, William Muldoon, the Duchess of
Marlborough, and Benvenuto Cellini.
A pint of porter with my cold beef at
Marlborough was enough to over-set me.
This was an article not to be entered on by himself; but a very intimate friend of his, a Colonel Wallis, a highly respectable man, perfectly the gentleman, (and not an ill-looking man, Sir Walter added), who was living in very good style in
Marlborough Buildings, and had, at his own particular request, been admitted to their acquaintance through Mr Elliot, had mentioned one or two things relative to the marriage, which made a material difference in the discredit of it.
There is the Old
Marlborough Road, which does not go to
Marlborough now, me- thinks, unless that is
Marlborough where it carries me.
On board of this fleet was the English General Hill, with seven regiments of soldiers, who had been fighting under the Duke of
Marlborough in Flanders.
Genera1 Dolinski is dining at
Marlborough House, and De Broullae is in Paris.
One winter's evening, about five o'clock, just as it began to grow dusk, a man in a gig might have been seen urging his tired horse along the road which leads across
Marlborough Downs, in the direction of Bristol.
A few steps behind came an officer in a scarlet and embroidered uniform, cut in a fashion old enough to have been worn by the Duke of
Marlborough.
He had entered very young into the army, and had served in the capacity of an ensign at the battle of Tannieres; here he had received two wounds, and had so well distinguished himself, that he was by the Duke of
Marlborough advanced to be a lieutenant, immediately after that battle.
These were the days of the War of the Spanish Succession and of the brilliant victories of
Marlborough of which you have read in the history of the time of Anne.
But the English campaigns under the Duke of
Marlborough against Louis XIV were supported by the Whigs,
The next day it came out in the evening papers that Private Miles, of the Coldstream Guards, on duty outside
Marlborough House, had deserted his post without leave, and was therefore courtmartialed.
