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family ancestry or its study
- And perhaps there had been some pleasure in pointing Mr. Brooke's attention to this ugly bit of Ladislaw's genealogy, as a fresh candle for him to see his own folly by.Book 8 — Sunset and Sunrise (42% in)
- ...of high-born relations: the way in which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty humors of old Lord Megatherium; the exact crossing of genealogies which had brought a coronet into a new branch and widened the relations of scandal,—these were topics of which she retained details with the utmost accuracy, and reproduced them in an excellent pickle of epigrams, which she herself...Book 1 — Miss Brooke (47% in)
- So our mercurial Ladislaw has a queer genealogy!Book 7 — Two Temptations (87% in)
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