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MRS. DELANY. 33
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9 There Is Suah. A Cliarm In Truth, And ...
For a specimen of the letters Mary Dewes received from her lively . _godmaniahere is onedated July 5 th 1766 : "I am sure my
dear six o ' g clock irl , will on be Monday impatient morning , to hear 1 from how sweet , I got Richmond here . I breakfasted sat out at
, with . Lady Frances Bulkeley , delivered your letter to Lady Mary Mordauntwho was pleased with the cauldined at Bugden ,
and lay at , Stilton ; _shoLild have reached Stamford , that night , but had tired horses one post ; breakfasted there on Tuesday . I did
not climb trees , but I was very near swimming at Carlton , the ¦ waters being out . I asked the post-boy whether the water was
deep ; he said , No , only a slop ; ' but it proved such a _' slop' as half jQlled . my chaise ! I caught up my feet so quick that my shoes
were not wet through , but my petticoats were , and I was obliged to sit in thembut was so lucky as not to catch cold . After the
• water was ladled , out of the chaise [ this carriage would now be called a chariotand was not understood to mean a hack chaise , as
was the case in , the j > _resent century ] I got some dry straw and laid at the bottom of the chaise , which was not dry when I got here ,
and when I arrived at the next stage got out and had hot napkins ni pinned ht . to At my petticoats the whilst landlord I dined told , me and my lay at ds' D w oncaster ere so m that uch
fati g gued they supper were , gone to bed , and the next day Cartwright was so knocked up I was forced to treat him with postchaises for four
posts . Mrs . Godwin , [ Lady C ' s maid , ] / called up every morning the roadthough she slept great part of the way ,
and often upon tumbled upon , in the chaise ! I read going up the hillsand was neither fatigued nor sleepyand arrived here fresh
enoug , h for ball , ( had not my dancing days , been over ) by twelve ' at noon on Thursday . In all my difficulties I remembered you , and
thoug with Then ht Mr come it Bernard might quaint have Granville been letters worse from and , and M who . was Rousseau quite a , p who hilosop occasionall was her intimate . " in reappears y
these volumes . sending polite , messages to Mary Dewes in the , character of " un vieux berger . "
Mrs . Delany , however , does not appear ever to have seen Rousseau , of whose opinions she entertained considerable dread ,
and she writes to her niece , in 1776 , that she " always takes alarm when virtue in general terms is the idol without the support of religion ,
great the onl lausibility y foundation and that can of expression be our security is deluding to rest and upon requires ; that
great p accuracy of judgment pomp not to be imposed upon , by it . " The italics are the wise old lady ' s own ; but the whole sentence , though
somewhat stiffly expressed , strikes the ear as equally applicable to and various In this May theories event , 1768 caused of , the the the Dean present remainder of Down day . of died his , wife at the ' s days age of to ei be ghty _sxDent -four in ,
Portland England . , at She Bulstrode passed a , great a deli deal ghtful of her old time woman with , always the Duchess deep in o £
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/33/
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