a large house on a wide street in well-to-do London. Ramsden's house.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Place
shew (Pg. 4)
old-fashioned variant of show.
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/shew
jeune premier (Pg. 4)
1. the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
perfidy (Pg. 63)
2: an act or an instance of disloyalty
uxoriousness (Pg. 67)
adj. - Excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife.
Beaumarchais (Pg. 69)
French intellectual (1732-1799). Most notable as a playwright (of Figaro fame)
social-democracy (Pg. 74)
A socio-political movement posited as a reform of capitalism in the manner of socialism, thought not as far under the auspices of government as to support true communism. Worker's rights are heavily promoted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
funk (Pg. 83)
A state of cowardly fright, or panic.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Funk
"Nothing has been right since that speech that professor Tyndall made at Belfast." (Pg. 161)
John Tyndall was a prominent 19th-century physicist at the Royal Institution in England. The speech referred to was made in 1874 in Belfast, wherein he stated the belief that mind and matter could no longer be thought of a truly seperate.
"It was a time when thought had become abject, and when the acceptance of mere authority led, as it always does in science, to intellectual death. Natural events, instead of being traced to physical, were referred to moral causes; while an exercise of the phantasy, almost as degrading as the spiritualism of the present day, took the place of scientific speculation." - John Tyndall, Belfast address, 1874
Qeurelous (Pg. 163)
1: habitually complaining
— quer·u·lous·ly adverb
— quer·u·lous·ness noun
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