CORRUPTION" 



Sometimes at the theatre to be seen and sainted by 



ometimes at the palace to be honoured by the 



King's brother as his countrywoman, sometimes in 



correspondence with sci< nen, and hearing of 



th. it adii. vfinents, she maintained to the last her 



cheerful int.-r.-st in iiou^li her eyenight was 



, and she could h.irily tin-1 tl>.- line again she 



writes of her in 1832, si,.- runs about the town with 

 me, and skips up her two pa lira an light and 



fresh at least as tome folks I could name, who are not a 

 fourth part of her age. ... In the morning till eleven 

 or twelve she is dull and weary, but as the day 

 advances she gains life, an.l is <|iiite ' fresh and ft; 



n or eleven p.m., and sings old rhymes, nay, even 

 dances! to the great of all who see 1 : It 



is such 1 1 i score as Cicero would have 



been < d to prefix as a t -ce to his treatise 



mi " < >1<1 Age," had it been avaihiM in his day. 

 spok in h ! usual spirit of rittl. 



const i 1 looked for it going to pieces in tin* 



great heats of sumn toon years befoi 



"My con is incurable," she says, ' f>r it 



decay of nature. . . . What a sh< a it is to be 



decaying ! </< f I am decay- 



ing ! will bo as Mrs. Maskclyne once was 



g me (on <>' my growing lean) tlo 



less com; -,v of the 



always to " the best and dearest of brotl 

 to her "dear nephew," and to her namesake, h is little 

 daojr! .oughts revert She enjoyed the 



present; she revelled and lived in the past "I have 

 now received in all .< writes to Lady 



