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has been, and I conclude still is, their opponent 

 on all subjects but this.' 



Lady Holland's matrimonial intentions with 

 regard to her daughter were not shared by the 

 young lady herself, and it speaks well for Lord 

 Holland's powers of persuasion that he induced 

 his wife to abate something of the chevaux de 

 frise by which my mother was surrounded. 



Otherwise so shy a man as my father could 

 never have run the gauntlet single-handed 

 against an antagonist of Lady Holland's mettle. 

 The engagement was entered into in the early 

 part of the year 1830, and the marriage took 

 place in the following May. 



My mother still continued to keep a journal, 

 and there is a record, in 1835, of an interesting 

 dinner at Lord and Lady Holland's, in the 

 house which they were then occupying in Old 

 Burlington Street. My father and mother were 

 on a visit to Miss Caroline Fox at Little 

 Holland House. 



'February 28, 1835.— We dined in Old 

 Burlington Street. The evening was very 

 pleasant. Count Pozzo di Borgo, and M. 



