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The establishment of a popular Government in France under Louis Philippe gave a great impulse to the enthusiasm which had been growing in England for Parliamentary reform, which, through the growth of large manufacturing centres since 1790, had become a more urgent necessity every year.
— from Glimpses of King William IV. and Queen Adelaide In Letters of the Late Miss Clitherow, of Boston House, Middlesex. With a Brief Account of Boston House and the Clitherow Family by Mary Clitherow
“There is no slight her ladyship has not put upon me, until not even your servants use me with the respect that is due to my father's daughter.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini
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