Garth, for her eldest son, Christy, her peculiar joy and pride, had come home for a short holiday—Christy, who held it the most desirable thing in the world to be a tutor, to study all literatures and be a regenerate Porson, and who was an incorporate criticism on poor Fred, a sort of object-lesson given to him by the educational mother.
Dorothea, early troubling her elders with questions about the facts around her, had wrought herself into some independent clearness as to the historical, political reasons why eldest sons had superior rights, and why land should be entailed: those reasons, impressing her with a certain awe, might be weightier than she knew, but here was a question of ties which left them uninfringed.
The eldest, that sits there, is but nineteen—so I leave you to guess.
" "Remember, I'm the eldest after you, Brother, and prospered from the first, just as you did, and have got land already by the name of Featherstone," said Solomon, relying much on that reflection, as one which might be suggested in the watches of the night.
He'd need have some luck by and by to make up for all this—else I don't know who'd have an eldest son.
But you won't get much by his dying without a will, though you are the eldest son.
" "Vincy, I must repeat, that you will not get any concurrence from me as to the course you have pursued with your eldest son.
Cadwallader's maid that Sir James was to marry the eldest Miss Brooke.
Roberta was the eldest.
" it was quickly decided by Eleanor to be her eldest brother, whose arrival was often as sudden, if not quite so unseasonable, and accordingly she hurried down to welcome him.
Even Frederick, my eldest son, you see, who will perhaps inherit as considerable a landed property as any private man in the county, has his profession.
Her tranquillity was not improved by the General's impatience for the appearance of his eldest son, nor by the displeasure he expressed at his laziness when Captain Tilney at last came down.
James's coming (my eldest brother) is quite delightful—and especially as it turns out that the very family we are just got so intimate with are his intimate friends already.
Allen, I long to introduce them; they will be so delighted to see you: the tallest is Isabella, my eldest; is not she a fine young woman?
He would have adored a sister and spoilt a mother, and was beginning at this time to think of marrying; for though he had been very happy with his various loves, each of whom, contrary to the usual experience, turned ultimately into his devoted friend, he was fond of children and thought he had perhaps now got to the age of settling if he did not wish to be too old by the time his eldest son was twenty.
In the train he had selected the words of his greeting, going over them with care—some slight expression of his gratification in meeting one of whom he, in common with the whole world, had heard—but of course put delicately, very delicately; some slight reference to her distinguished parents and the part her family had played in the history of England—made, of course, with proper tact; a sentence or two about her eldest brother Lord Winchcombe, who had won his V.
I'd like him to be mine since my own siblings are too boring to do cool stuff like this for their beloved Eldest.
Almost half of the British public believe Prince Charles should stand aside and let his eldest son William become the next king, polling shows.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have discussed enrolling their eldest son at the ￡12,605-a-term boarding school Marlborough College, the Daily Mail reported.
BROOKLYN BECKHAM, 19: Thrust into the spotlight from childhood, the Beckhams' eldest is now determined to throw himself into his passion for photography.
