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  • Fitz-pompeys cantered off with the Shropshires; omen of felicity to the enamoured St. Maurice and the enamouring Sophy.

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • 'Perhaps you told them that you would return with the Fitz-pompeys, but they are gone; or Mrs. Aberleigh, and she is not here; or perhaps -- but they have gone too.

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • England, not to commit himself too decidedly with the Fitz-pompeys, and he had cautiously guarded himself from being entrapped into becoming their guest.

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Fitz-pompeys at Malthorpe; a month with the Graftons at Cleve; and so on: he shuddered at the very idea.

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • The Fitz-pompeys were there; and, among others, his Grace had the pleasure of again meeting a few of his Yorkshire friends.

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Duke's visits at the Baronet's were frequent; and as the Graftons were intimate with the Fitz-pompeys, scarcely a day elapsed without his having the pleasure of passing a portion of it in the company of Lady

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • He found the Fitz-pompeys and a few still lingering for their carriages, and Arundel Dacre and his fair admirer.

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Fitz-pompeys, and the Bloomerlys; the Duke and Duchess of Shropshire, and the three Ladies Wrekin, who might have passed for the Graces; Lord and Lady Vatican on a visit from Rome, his Lordship taking hints for a heat in the Corso, and her Ladyship, a classical beauty with a face like

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

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