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past it would be quite ridiculous and affected. You may 

 talk to her a little about this at a distance. 



I spoke to the Duke of Grafton about your being in 

 France, and I will take an opportunity of saying some- 

 thing about it to him again, only to show your attention 

 as to the Parliament, This moment my servant brings 

 me your letter by le Boi. I will enquire for a lodging for 

 the Eena, for I agree with you entirely, that you have no 

 room for her in your house, and it is as well to avoid all 

 the nonsense that would be said about it. I shall have 

 everything in readiness, that she may immediately go to 

 her own hotel, for she certainly cannot come either to 

 yours or mine. — Etc. etc. . . . 



APPENDIX Y. 



Bully inquires^ after you very often. Milady Bully ^ 

 came last Sunday to Guerchy's, where I dined with the 

 Bedfords and Lord G. I suppose she was not invited 

 upon his account. Women are so much more impudent 

 than men ; I never saw anything like it. She came just 

 after we had drunk coffee ; handsomer than ever I saw 

 her, and not the least abashed. Pauvre Milor Gower, il ne 

 savait que faire de sa personne. I was sorry for him, because 

 I know what he suffered. 



^ Lord Bolingbroke. 



" Lady Bolingbroke, nee Lady Diana Spencer, afterwards Lady 

 Diana Beauclerk. 



