MASTER SOUJ3ISE 107 



' " St. Barnaby bright, 

 The longest day and the shortest night ! " ' 



The marriage took place on the 21st of June. 



The Duchess's proteges were numerous: neither 

 colour nor race seems to have affected her selection, 

 as she took an uncommon interest in a negro lad 

 brought from Jamaica by a relative of the Duke's, who 

 informed her that 'he had an uncommonly smart 

 and intelligent Mungo," Her grace expressed a desire 

 to see him, and then begged the orphan of his 

 master, promising to provide for and educate him. 

 This she did, naming him Soubise. The lad, after his 

 curriculum, as became a Duchess's protege, aimed 

 at entering the fashionable world, talked of be- 

 coming a general, and followed the footsteps of 

 his patron's relative. Lord March, in gallantry: 

 indeed, her grace's maids called him Othello. At 

 last the good old Duke was taken with Master 

 Soubise's martial vapourings ; had him taught 

 fencing and riding, in both of which he became 

 proficient. Then allusion was made to one of the 

 universities to finish his education; this was too 

 much for Soubise -Othello's balance, who thereon 

 assumed airs, boasting he was the son of an African 

 prince. The Duchess's dislike of assumption and 

 presumption has already been mentioned ; so, when 



