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Excerpt from The Rise of Great Families: Other Essays, and Stories
Out of this long list, let me take haphazard a few names, Nevill, Talbot, Howard, fitzgerald, Hamilton, Devereux, Courtenay, Butler, and Douglas. Where in the history of foreign nobility can they be surpassed for ancient lineage or public services? The sound of their names is the echo of the war trumpet of the middle ages.
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