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on his lordship's mode of living than any of later 

 date. Part of a communication/ dated November, 

 sets forth some further little commissions requested 

 of Selwyn. But what will they who dimly re- 

 member the solid magnificence of furniture in the 

 early part of the century, when George the ' Mag- 

 nificent' flourished, say of this remark of March's 

 when seeking his friend's assistance in procuring a 

 chest of drawers for him : ' Don't let it be too much 

 ornamented — J'aime le grand simple comme le 

 Prince ' ? 



To those familiar with the advice as to not marry- 

 ing the family as well, the taking ' his httle girl ' ^ 

 out with her whole family to Newmarket seems a 

 smgular freak of good -nature ; though he slyly 

 adds, ' The beauty went with me in my chaise, and 

 the rest in the old landau.' Who will say, then, 

 that his lordship did not to the utmost endeavour 

 to please the family as well ! Happy as Lord March 

 appears to have been in the society of his new 

 charmer, his letter shows a vein of regret at not 

 being really off with ' the old love before he, etc' 



Complexions in those times were as much matters 

 of art as now; for does not a modern high priest 

 of sestheticism say there are only two sorts of 



^ Appendix B 1. ^ La Zamparini. 



