 The duchess, a very tall and very handsome woman, with a smile of the most winning sweetness, received me at the door, and I was presented successively to every person present. Dinner was announced immediately, and the difficult question of precedence...  Manners and Customs of the Principal Nations of the Globe - Stran 73avtor: Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 352 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 strani
...gallant general's well-won red riband for a badge of his hereditary rank. But let Mr. Willis proceed — 'The gong sounded at the next moment, and, in our...passed through files of servants to the dining-room." We should have supposed Mr. Willis might have observed before this time, that there are and can be... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1835 - 1350 strani
...rneasw for the introductions which followed. The draiing-room was crowded like a soiree. ?": Duchess, a tall and very handsome woman with a smile of the most...presented successively to every person present. Dinner «'as announced immediately, and the difficult question ,of precedence being sooner settled than I... | |
 | 1836 - 740 strani
...measure for the introductions which followed. The drawing-room was crowded like a toirée. The Duchess, a tall and very handsome woman, with a smile of the...large a party, we passed through files of servants to tlie dining-room." The dinner passed off without anything very remarkable. Mr. Willis fills up the... | |
 | 1836 - 646 strani
...castle. This was the duke, who conducted him to the drawing-room previous to sitting down to dinner. " Dinner was announced immediately, and the difficult...passed through files of servants to the dining-room." This settlement of a difficult question on the part of such characters, need not, we think, have astonished... | |
 | 1836 - 636 strani
...castle. This was the duke, who conducted him to the drawing-room previous to sitting down to dinner. " Dinner was announced immediately, and the difficult...passed through files of servants to the dining-room." This settlement of a difficult question on the part of such characters, need not, we think, have astonished... | |
 | 1835 - 610 strani
...introductions which followed. The drawing-room was crowded like a soiree. The duchess, a very ta\l and very handsome woman, with a smile of the most...passed through files of servants to the dining-room.' WTe should have supposed Mr. \\illis might have observed before this time, that there are and can be... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 428 strani
...measure, for the introductions which followed. The drawing-room was crowded like a soiree. The duchess, a tall and very handsome woman, with a smile of the...announced immediately, and the difficult question of precedejice being sooner settled than I had ever seen it before in so large a party, we passed through... | |
 | William Howitt - 1841 - 520 strani
...measure, for the introduction which followed. The drawingroom was crowded like a soiree. The Duchess, a tall and very handsome woman, with a smile of the...question of precedence being sooner settled than I had overseen it before in so large a party, we passed through files of servants to the dining-room. It... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1854 - 508 strani
...measure for the introductions which followed. The drawing-room was crowded like a soiree. The Dutchess, a very tall and very handsome woman, with a smile...party, we passed through files of servants to the dining room. I It was a large and very lofty hall, supported at the ends by marble columns, within... | |
 | Elizabeth Brodie Gordon Duchess of Gordon, Alexander Moody Stuart - 1865 - 470 strani
...broad red ribbon across his breast, and welcomed me most heartily to the Castle. — The Duchess, a tall and very handsome woman, with a smile of the most winning sweetness, received me at the drawing-room door, and I was presented successively to every person present. Dinner was announced immediately,... | |
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