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<p>[QUOTE="Batman_2000, post: 67378, member: 481"]Thanks for the link, cluttered <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />. And if I understand correctly, silverthwait, then I agree... it could be why he was in-the-dogcart/house! ;-) Mansons, you've confirmed what I was thinking, and maybe there are just regional variations in the phrase.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've found the autobiography of H Rider Haggard online (<a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300131.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300131.txt" rel="nofollow">http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300131.txt</a>). He describes himself at age nineteen as '<i>a tall young fellow, quite six feet, and slight; blue-eyed,</i></p><p><i>brown-haired, fresh-complexioned, and not at all bad-looking</i>', with no mention of a beard.</p><p><br /></p><p>He also wrote '<i>My father was a typical squire of the old sort, a kind of Sir Roger de</i></p><p><i>Coverley. He reigned at Bradenham like a king, blowing everybody up</i></p><p><i>and making rows innumerable. Yet I do not think there was a more</i></p><p><i>popular man in the county of Norfolk. Even the servants, whom he rated</i></p><p><i>in a fashion that no servant would put up with nowadays, were fond of</i></p><p><i>him. He could send back the soup with a request to the cook to drink</i></p><p><i>it all herself, or some other infuriating message. He could pull at</i></p><p><i>the bells until feet of connecting wire hung limply down the wall, and</i></p><p><i>announce when whoever it was he wanted appeared that Thorpe Idiot</i></p><p><i>Asylum was her proper home, and so forth. Nobody seemed to mind in the</i></p><p><i>least. It was "only the Squire's way," they said.</i>' This description definitely suits his father's image![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Batman_2000, post: 67378, member: 481"]Thanks for the link, cluttered :). And if I understand correctly, silverthwait, then I agree... it could be why he was in-the-dogcart/house! ;-) Mansons, you've confirmed what I was thinking, and maybe there are just regional variations in the phrase. I've found the autobiography of H Rider Haggard online ([URL]http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300131.txt[/URL]). He describes himself at age nineteen as '[I]a tall young fellow, quite six feet, and slight; blue-eyed, brown-haired, fresh-complexioned, and not at all bad-looking[/I]', with no mention of a beard. He also wrote '[I]My father was a typical squire of the old sort, a kind of Sir Roger de Coverley. He reigned at Bradenham like a king, blowing everybody up and making rows innumerable. Yet I do not think there was a more popular man in the county of Norfolk. Even the servants, whom he rated in a fashion that no servant would put up with nowadays, were fond of him. He could send back the soup with a request to the cook to drink it all herself, or some other infuriating message. He could pull at the bells until feet of connecting wire hung limply down the wall, and announce when whoever it was he wanted appeared that Thorpe Idiot Asylum was her proper home, and so forth. Nobody seemed to mind in the least. It was "only the Squire's way," they said.[/I]' This description definitely suits his father's image![/QUOTE]
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