An income of nine or ten thousand is after all a poor support for a marquis.
The marquis tears the napkin out of his hands and throws it at his face.
Beppo at first does not understand the order, and then pours the water over the marquis' hands.
According to them every market garden is owned by a marquis, and every plot of vacant land is held up by some speculator.
Perhaps there is a marquis or duke somewhere who will benefit from the concession.
His second wife only came from the family of a marquis—and he a lawyer at that!
Then we have thirty-one marquises, who own 121 separate estates, comprising 1,500,000 acres.
It would have to be a life earl, but he could be made a life marquis.