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personal description you give of your consort. May 

 the heir of our line be like his mother, is my prayer ! 

 For, oh, Daniel, my predilection for dark beauty is the 

 same, and my conviction unalterable, that even 



" Genius a dead loss is, 



With dark brows and long proboscis." 



" Poor woman ! no wonder she thus considered : 

 a sergeant in the Guards, with a countenance of the true 

 Kemble character, had, in early life, almost turned her 

 brain ; and Tooley Street was kept in an uproar, until 

 he was fortunately drafted off to join the Duke of York 

 upon the Continent, and there, in due time, rested in 

 the bed of glory. 



"It is a lamentable thing for a man of sensibility 

 to wed a woman whose conduct he considers irreconcilable 

 to his ideas of what female delicacy demands — and 

 such was my case. Drusilla not only assumed the 

 mastery within doors, but she extended her sway to the 

 farm and the horses. One day, at the head of a hundred 

 paupers, she was planting trees ; the next, with Marc 

 Antony Bodkin, making a radical reform in the stables 

 On these occasions, arrayed in a man's hat, with her 

 limbs cased in Hessian boots, she looked, as Tom the 

 Devil said, ' blasted knowing.' I occasionally was 

 permitted to attend, as a sort of travelling conveniency 

 to hang her cloak upon ; and 1 never returned without 

 some indignity from strangers, or personal disrespect 

 from herself. It was death to me to hear her addressed 

 in the coarse language of the stable, and allusions made 

 to her altered figure, which appeared too vulgar even for 

 the servants' hall ; and when a fellow of forbidding 

 countenance, with a scarlet coat and white unmentionables 

 whom the rest of the gang distinguished as ' Long 



