Volume V Part 61 (2/2)
”No doubt she wants you to plead with me in her favour”
”By noratitude, for she loved you and gave you several proofs of her affection, but now she hates you”
”Thank Heaven for that! The wretched woman! It's curious she should have selected you as her lover by way of taking vengeance on me, but take care! she will punish you”
”It may be so, but at all events it's a pleasant kind of punishment”
”I hope you may be happy, but look to yourself; she is a ar counted ave him a receipt and the declaration he required, and with these docuht surely flatter myself that all was at an end between us, but I was mistaken
Just about this ti duke, land's sister The Common Council presented him with the freedom of the City, and the Goldsave hi the documents which entleman in Europe, and yet he did not disdain to add this new honour to a family illustrious for fourteen hundred years
On this occasion Lady Harrington was the uineas She lent her rooave a ball and supper to a thousand persons at three guineas each I paidup all the evening with six hundred others, for the table only seated four hundred, and there were several ladies ere unable to procure seats
That evening I saw Lady Grafton seated beside the Duke of cumberland
She wore her hair without any powder, and all the other ladies were exclai it was They could not anathematize the innovator too much, but in less than sixthe hair became coh it has been given another name It is still in fashi+on, and is the only h it was so unmercifully ridiculed at first
The supper for which the giver of the feast had received three thousand guineas, or sixty-five thousand francs, contained a most varied assort, and did not feel taken with any of the ladies present, I left at one in the
It was Sunday, a day on which all persons, save criminals, are exe adventure befellhoro and another servant seated behind , ”Good night, Seingalt” I put my head out of theto reply, and in an instant the carriage was surrounded by men ar's name!”
My servant asked what they wanted, and they answered,--
”To take hiate, for Sunday makes no difference to criminals”
”And what crime have I committed?”
”You will hear that in prison”
”My oes to prison,” said the negro
”Yes, but the ro stuck to his position, however, and the people who had coht
The head-constable gave in, and said he would take me to a house in the city
”Then drive to that city,” said I, ”and have done with it”
We stopped before the house, and I was placed in a large roo tables My servant sent back the carriage, and came to keep me company The six constables said they could not leave me, and told me I should send out for soive them what they wanted, and to be as amicable with them as was possible
As I had not committed any crime, I was quite at ease; I knew that my arrest must be the effect of a slander, and as I are that London justice was speedy and equitable, I thought I should soon be free But I blaressed the excellent ht time; for if I had not done so I should have been in my house, and not in prison Theto be done but to wait patiently I ae froe to the vile place I now occupied, though I was still dressed like a prince