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men and great people with whom her intended liege 

 lord associated. We remember being victimized by 

 our venerable relative down St. James's-street, one 

 afternoon, when she insisted that a certain duke was 

 Sir Francis Burdett, merely because he wore top- 

 boots ; and Madame Tussaud's Sir Francis wears 

 them also ; while every big, burley, bushy-wigged man 

 she christened Daniel O'Connell. We met six Daniel 

 O'Connells between Sam's corner and Slaughter's 

 coffee-house in St. Martin's-lane. O'Connell, we may 

 tell him, may take it as a compliment, for we never 

 knew our cousin, Miss Crustyface, descend to a 

 commoner before. It was all owing to his generous 

 breadth of shoulder and the fine dark cauliflower wig 

 he sports in Madame Tussaud's exhibition, or rather 

 perhaps all owing to his being in Madame Tussaud's 

 exhibition, that Miss Crustyface gave herself any 

 trouble about him. 



Talking of the Countess Ferrers — or, alas ! for true 

 enterprising talent ! Miss Smith — talking of Miss 

 Smith — what a loss was there for want of a little real 

 London information and experience. We will be 

 bound to say, if Miss Smith had had but a tithe of 

 the opportunities our cousin, Miss Crustyface, enjoys, 

 she would have triumphed over the earl — at all events 

 have made costs — heavy, vindictive costs, compensate 

 for the loss of the coronet. Inspired young lady ! 

 If the unblushing " white rose " of the country — if the 

 untrained, untutored mind of rural life could depict 

 scenes and situations that outwitted her Majesty's 

 great "cute" Solicitor-General, what might we not 

 have hoped from the resources of an ampler field? 

 It was not her fault that Lord Clive was painted the 



against Lord Ferrers, for an alledged breach of promise of 

 marriage ; which she sought to establish by a series of letters, 

 supposed to have been written by herself to herself. After the 

 trial had lasted four days, the Solicitor-General submitted to a 

 non-suit.— See Pickering's Report, in 1 vol. 



