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house '^ (to which had been made back additions), 

 and then walked to a Mr. March's ^ in Grosvenor 

 Place. This communication has another point of 

 interest — the recital by a common friend of what 

 the Duke's regard, hojoes, and fears for Mie-Mie were. 

 Warner then goes on to say : 



' At ray abord, in which he was very gracious and .shook 

 me heartily by the hand, he asked : " Well, and how is 

 George ? " 



'And, as soon as we were alone, "Well, and how does Mie- 

 Mie go on ? " I thanked him in my heart for the question, 

 as it gave me so fair an opportunity of telling him what I 

 thought, and what an accomplished woman she would make, 

 in the fond hope to please him. But he baffled and 

 laughed at me, till I was mortified to the quick. "What 

 would she learn 1 What could she learn ? " " Why, every- 

 thing." " Pshaw ! she will be praised for what the child of 

 a poor person would be punished." — (So that it should 

 seem, when she comes to music, if she should mistake a 

 note in Voi Amanti, he would have her stripped and 

 whipped.) — "Such sort of education is all nonsense, and 

 such people never learn anything as they should do ; and 

 if they turn out at all well, it depends upon the acquaint- 

 ance they have at entering into the world." ' 



This conversation is representative of his grace's 

 cynicism and disregard for letters. Humanity and the 

 World were his schoolhouse and college ; and to him 



^ Piccadilly, pi-esumably. - His grace's surgeon. 



