 | Thomas Lister Ribblesdale (4th Baron) - 1897 - 434 páginas
...induced a certain semi-royal aloofness. I feel confident that he was never in anything like a scrape — this is of itself quite a misfortune — and I question...his knees in blood for Jem Mason, who had won him 100/. with Trust-Me-Not, relieved him of the pressing society of the bailiffs, and set him again on... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 524 páginas
...induced a certain semi-royal aloofness. I feel confident that he was never in anything like a scrape — this is of itself quite a misfortune — and I question...his knees in blood for Jem Mason, who had won him ílOO with Trust-MeNot, relieved him of the pressing society of the bailiffs, and set him again on... | |
 | George Frederick Underhill - 1903 - 336 páginas
...Ribblesdale — the italics are my own. " I feel confident that he was never in anything like a scrape — this is of itself quite a misfortune — and I question...much to do with the scrapes and shifts of others." I have always thought that Charles Davis was an over-rated man ; and that he was a thorn in the side... | |
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... respectable citizen. Moreover, the even and deserved prosperity of his career, his converse — almost identity — with great personages, and the responsible authority of his position may easily have induced a certain semi-royal aloofness. I feel... 