A duke or so would have completed the set.

And the magnanimity which I would so willingly have stretched to include a duke spread itself over other British institutions as amply as Arthur could have wished.

When I saw things in Hyde Park on Sunday that I was compelled to find excuses for, I thought of the tyrant's iron heel; and when I was obliged to overlook the superiorities of the titled great, I reflected upon the difficulty of walking in iron heels without inconveniencing a prostrate population.

I should defy anybody to be more magnanimous than I was.
As to the claims of kinship, only once removed, to our forbearance and affection, I never so much as sat out a dance on a staircase with Oddie Pratte without recognising them.
It seems almost incredible that Arthur should not have been gratified, but the fact remains that he was not.

Anyone could see, after the first half hour, that he was not.