THE TONDINO 103 



This news, and some fashionable gossip, Lord March 

 addresses to Selwyn at Paris ; though his conckiding 

 remarks are worth remembering for the future — his 

 gastronomic capabilities, and a reference in Italian to 

 the Tondino ! 



That March's commissions were duly executed by 

 Selwyn his lordship's thanks prove ;i at the same 

 time he praises his correspondent's talent for letter- 

 writing. Lord March does not seem to have en- 

 grossed all the little Tondino's attention, for he 

 alludes to her as then writing Selwyn a letter. 



Between the aforesaid communication and the sub- 

 sequent one^ Sehvyn had returned from Paris. At 

 first sight, the superscription of Lord March's letter 

 might convey the idea that he had changed his 

 habitation from London to Paris, as the address 

 — Hotel de Tondino — might imply this to the un- 

 initiated in his lordship's Cyprian wit. But little 

 Society gossip is forthcoming in this foreign-dated 

 letter, while that which concerns himself and his 

 surroundings is confined to the facts that he was going 

 to Newmarket, had not risen till near two p.m., and 

 that the Tondino was much better; items of in- 

 formation which probably caused 'George' much 

 gratification. 



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