Stranica 222 [222]
“MY GRANDFATHER SAYS THESE ARE MY ANCESTORS,’
SAID FAUNTLEROY.”’
Dorincourt Arms, and would
spend half an hour or so wan¬
dering about the gallery, star¬
ing at the painted ladies and
gentlemen, who also stared
at him, and shaking his head
nearly all the time.
“And they was all earls !.”
he would say, " er pretty nigh
it! An he’s goin’ to be one.
of em, an’ own it all!”
Privately he was not
nearly so much disgusted with
earls and their mode of life as
he had expected to be, and it
is to be doubted whether his
strictly republican principles
were not shaken a little by
a closer acquaintance with
castles and ancestors and all
the rest of it. At any rate,
one day he uttered a very
remarkable and unexpected
sentiment:
which was really a great concession.