An income of nine or ten thousand is after all a poor support for amarquis.
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Themarquistears the napkin out of his hands and throws it at his face.
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Beppo at first does not understand the order, and then pours the water over themarquis' hands.
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According to them every market garden is owned by amarquis, and every plot of vacant land is held up by some speculator.
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Perhaps there is amarquisor duke somewhere who will benefit from the concession.
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His second wife only came from the family of amarquis—and he a lawyer at that!
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Then we have thirty-one marquises, who own 121 separate estates, comprising 1,500,000 acres.
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It would have to be a life earl, but he could be made a lifemarquis.
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If the nation controlled the mines, no duke,marquisor earl would get that £7,000,000 worth of the miners' labour.
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I should hate to think that some impoverished duke,marquisor lord has had to dip into his own pocket to pay the bills.
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It is not the presentmarquis, is it?
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His father's family had possessed the titlemarquissince the early 18th century and owned famous porcelain works.
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Themarquisreceived over seven million francs for his four ill-fated expeditions.
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Themarquisalso initiated an annual trade-fair that is still organized yearly.
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Thus, a baron-grandee would outrank a non-grandeemarquis, making the "grandeza" an official hereditary rank rather than a title of nobility.
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