But so things go here.
"Such dereliction would destroy a man with us in a moment, but here there is a different standard (this, of course, _entre nous_)....

Among the numerous visitors that have thronged to see the Telegraph, there have been a great many of the principal English nobility.

Among them the Lord and Lady Aylmer, former Governor of Canada, Lord Elgin and son, the Celebrated preserver, not depredator (as he has been most slanderously called) of the Phidian Marbles.

Lord Elgin has been twice and expressed a great interest in the invention.

He brought with him yesterday the Earl of Lincoln, a young man of unassuming manners; he was delighted and gave me his card with a pressing invitation to call on him when I came to London.
"I have not failed to let the English know how I was treated in regard to my application for a patent in England, and contrasted the conduct of the French in this respect to theirs.