The all-powerful minister, who had taken her
regency from the queen, and his royalty from the king, had not been able to take a good stomach from nature.
A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the
Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.
He was one of those four musketeers who, under the late king, made Cardinal de Richelieu tremble, and who, during the
regency, gave so much trouble to Monseigneur Mazarin."
He was not in a pleasant humor; and every time I hinted that perhaps this contract was a shade too hefty for a novice he unlimbered his tongue and cursed like a bishop -- French bishop of the
Regency days, I mean.
But before this, Lady Jane conducted Rebecca to the apartments prepared for her, which, with the rest of the house, had assumed a very much improved appearance of order and comfort during Pitt's
regency, and here beholding that Mrs.
It was in the days of the
Regency that the Dawlish coffers first began to show signs of cracking under the strain, in the era of the then celebrated Beau Dawlish.
The first morning of her
regency, Miss Ophelia was up at four o'clock; and having attended to all the adjustments of her own chamber, as she had done ever since she came there, to the great amazement of the chambermaid, she prepared for a vigorous onslaught on the cupboards and closets of the establishment of which she had the keys.
'Aha!' replied the old gentleman, 'I began to be afeerd that you'd gone for a walk round the
Regency Park, Sammy.'
"I knew there were smugglers, but I thought that since the capture of Algiers, and the destruction of the
regency, pirates existed only in the romances of Cooper and Captain Marryat."
In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the
Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under a heavy mortgage.
"We will be two old friends," said des Lupeaulx, "and suppress all tender nonsense and tormenting love; we will take things as they did under the
Regency. Ah!