The Man Who Laughs


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The Clerk went on.  
"My Lord Heneage Finch, Baron Guernsey."  
The ancestor of the Earls of Aylesford, neither older nor less elegant  
than the ancestor of the Marquises of Hertford, justified his device,  
Aperto vivere voto, by the proud tone in which he exclaimed,  
"Content."  
Whilst he was resuming his seat, the Clerk called the fifth Baron,--  
"My Lord John, Baron Granville."  
Rising and resuming his seat quickly, "Content," exclaimed Lord  
Granville, of Potheridge, whose peerage was to become extinct in 1709.  
The Clerk passed to the sixth.  
"My Lord Charles Montague, Baron Halifax."  
"Content," said Lord Halifax, the bearer of a title which had become  
extinct in the Saville family, and was destined to become extinct again  
in that of Montague. Montague is distinct from Montagu and Montacute.  
And Lord Halifax added, "Prince George has an allowance as Her Majesty's  
Consort; he has another as Prince of Denmark; another as Duke of  
Cumberland; another as Lord High Admiral of England and Ireland; but he  
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