LORD march's stockings SEIZED 105 



The last paragraph shows how much his lordship 

 could rely on his friend's good offices, as he asks, 

 'Pray say something for me to the little Tondino,' 

 pleading illness in excuse for inability to write both 

 his friends at that time. March probably wished to 

 acquire as much rest as possible prior to the arrival 

 of Stephen Fox, for whom he had taken a room. Fox 

 shared to the full the gambling proclivities of Lord 

 March. But whether Lord Holland intrusted to 

 him the worldly tuition of his boys or not, March 

 gambled and raced with both Stephen and Charles 

 James Fox. 



Eccentric as Catharine, Duchess of Queensberry, 

 was, both she and her husband were truly benevolent. 

 A chronicler^ of these days states that, as late as 

 1798, many of the Duke and Duchess's old retainers 

 were alive, living in comfort on their bounty. This 

 writer had special means of learning chit-chat about 

 her gTace through the medium of a former maid, one 

 of her pensioners, a worthy spinster then bordering on 

 the eighties, who was for ever lisping, ' Our dear Lord 

 Duke,' ' the dear Lady Duchess,' expressions which 

 she varied with contempt for ' that Lord March,' who 

 succeeded to the title and fortune of my ' dear Lord 

 Duke, though not to the dignities (sic) of the dear 



^ Angelo. 



