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" I was calm but very decided, and I think you would have been pleased to see my composure and great firmness ; the Queen of England will not submit to such trickery. Keep yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted. "
Queen Victoria - Page 121
by Lytton Strachey - 1921 - 434 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 97

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1908 - 870 pages
...behaved very ill, and has insisted on my giving up my bdies, to which I replied that I would never consent ; and I never saw a man so frightened. ......yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted. The ' Bedchamber Plot ' was a temporary triumph ; but it only averted for two years the change which...
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The Living Age, Volume 255

Literature - 1907 - 854 pages
...ready to receive a decision, which I said I should; he was quite perturbed— but this is infamous. ... I was calm but very decided, and I think you would...yourself In readiness, for you may soon be wanted. The Queen was always too susceptible In forming an opinion of a man by the Impression produced on her...
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The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's ..., Volume 1

Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 728 pages
...Tory Ladies, but that then if you had come into Office you would never have dreamt of changing them. I was calm but very decided, and I think you would...yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted. Extract from the Queen's Journal. Thursday, 9M May 1839. At half-past two I saw the Duke of Wellington....
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The Letters of Queen Victoria, a Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence ...

Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 736 pages
...Tory Ladies, but that then if you had come into Office you would never have dreamt of changing them. I was calm but very decided, and I think you would...yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted. Extract from the Queens Journal. Thvnday, 9th May 1839. At half-past two I saw the Duke of Wellington....
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The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's ..., Volume 1

Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 734 pages
...Tory Ladies, but that then if you had come into Office you would never have dreamt of changing them. I was calm but very decided, and I think you would...yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted. Extract from the Queen's Journal. Thursday, tith May 1839. At half -past two I saw the Duke of Wellington....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 207

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1907 - 794 pages
...he was quite perturbed — but this is *»famous. ... I was calm but very decided, and I think yon would have been pleased to see my composure and great...yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted.' The Queen was always too susceptible In forming an opinion of a man by the impression produced on her...
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The Living Age, Volume 256

Literature - 1908 - 856 pages
...the Whig Ladies of the Bedchamber, the Queen writes: "Sir Robert Peel has behaved very ill, and has insisted on my giving up my Ladies, to which i replied...Queen of England will not submit to such trickery." Five days later, to King Leopold: "You will easily imagine that i firmly resisted this attack upon...
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Albany Review, Volume 2, Issues 7-9

1908 - 390 pages
...the Whig Ladies of the Bedchamber, the Queen writes : " Sir Robert Peel has behaved very ill, and has insisted on my giving up my Ladies, to which I replied...Queen of England will not submit to such trickery." Five days later, to King Leopold : " You will easily imagine that I firmly resisted this attack upon...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 3

Literature - 1908 - 888 pages
...Peel she never would consent. "I never saw a man so frightened. ... I was calm but very decided. . . . The Queen of England will not submit to such trickery....yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted." And so it proved: Sir Robert abandoned the Her Majesty's "Busy Day" Here, indeed, was a tempest in...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 3

1908 - 874 pages
...Peel she never would consent. "I never saw a man so frightened. ... I was calm but very decided. . . . The Queen of England will not submit to such trickery....yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted." And so it proved: Sir Robert abandoned the attempt to form a Government, and Lord Melbourne remained...
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