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soon of the party. The not-over-young couple 

 married in haste and privately, but seem never to 

 have repented. With the proceeds of the bride's 

 next novel, Camilla, they built Camilla Cottage, 

 still conspicuous, as Camilla Lacey, on the slopes 

 above Box Hill station ; but at the peace General 

 D'Arblay went back to France, where his wife 

 became for years an involuntary exile. 



Mrs. Papendiek has a mischievous statement 

 that Miss Burney was dismissed on account of 

 the Queen's displeasure that she used her spare 

 hours for writing a novel in the palace ; and that 

 the authoress was much mortified by the loss of 

 her post. But this seems mere scandal. Madame 

 D'Arblay owned to writing an unsuccessful 

 tragedy at Kew and Windsor ; and some years 

 after, when Camilla was published, she confessed 

 to the King and Queen that the "skeleton" 

 of it had been jotted down under their roof, 

 at which they expressed no displeasure, but 

 graciously acknowledged the dedication with a 

 gift of a hundred guineas. The same gossiping 

 authority says that Miss Jacobi did not recom- 

 mend herself to the Queen, nor to " old 

 Schwelly," who refused to allow that niece-maid 

 to dine at her table. A few years later Mrs. 



