[Under Two Flags by Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]]@TWC D-Link book
Under Two Flags

CHAPTER XIV
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You must learn to know what it means first.' Then away he lounges.

By Jove! I don't think the Cotton-Earl will forget this Cambridgeshire in a hurry, or try horse-dealing on the Seraph again." Laughter loud and long greeted the story.
"Poor Beauty," said the Dauphin, "he'd have enjoyed that.

He always put down Pulteney himself.

I remember his telling me he was on duty at Windsor once when Pulteney was staying there.

Pulteney's always horribly funked at Court; frightened out of his life when he dines with any royalties; makes an awful figure too in a public ceremony; can't walk backward for any money, and at his first levee tumbled down right in the Queen's face.


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