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LADY HESTER STANHOPE. 233
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— — Much Has Been Said And Written Latel...
the most violent contrasts . The quietude of nature would come to the her with cool a breezes new meaning would , be after refreshing the noise 1 to and her riot head of the aching city , with and .
, excitement and activity . Then again , easily wearied of the most beautiful scene when constantly beheld , the eager dancer and the
passionate anchorite would engage her unsatisfied energy in games of ambition and parliamentary intrigues . She would vaunt her
power over the Grenvilles ; she would launch her sarcasms at Canning . * ' She would stand by rejoicing when the people at
Weymouth insisted on moving the horses from Mr . Pitt's carriage , and dragging it in triumph through the place . At one time she
would the they cut looked change direct like the to so dress Lord many of So a ic -and whole Tin -so Harlequins , reg because iment of . " she militia At pretended another by 75 telling she she them gave only
saw a " great chameleon in pigeon-breasted colors ; he being " attired in his court-dress . A characteristic trait , illustrative of one of her various tastesbe found in her constant reference in after
days to a little cottage , may on Sevenoaks common , which she declared was better suited to her tastes than anything she had ever seen .
This paradise was inhabited by three old maids , whose principal p rounds leasures of boiled in existence beef . were These good prosaic beer likings , capital were cheese continued , and to large the
end of Lady Hester ' s existence . She was ever haunted by the idea that a quantity of food , perpetually taken , was necessary to support
her large frame ; and , deaf to the suggestions of her physician , she thought it necessary to eat every hour during the latter years of
her life , and to have dozens of gimcracks and messes on a rickety table hy her sideso that constantlyduring the watches of the
, , nig We ht , aried she mi by ght the be fati able gues to ward and off harassed the exhaustion by the troubles of nature of . his
officeMr . Pitt would occasionally retire with Lady Hester to his simple , retreat at Walmer . A little farm-servant was his principal
table valet ; became a single the room cabinet , furnished of the great with minister a few chairs . The and cooking a writing was of
the most ,, simple kind . We hear again of huge hunches of bread and cheese which LadHester would devour with the appetite of a
y plough-boy ? delighting in the escape from stiff dinners and unnatural made dishes .
The ministerial life , as described by Lady Hester , seemed any-* Earl Stanhope describes Mr . Pitt as being not occasionally his discomposed Cabinet by
the lively sallies of his niece , which did always spare own col AiFairs leagues ) . On to one breakfas occasion t with , Lord Pitt Mul and grave desir ( Secretary ing to eat of an State for could Forei find gn .
came " , egg , th on is th ? ' table he asked only of a Lad broken Hester eggspoon . ' Don . ' How 't you can know Pitt ? ' have answ such ered a spoon livel us y y
_ind lady weak ; c have instruments you not yet to discovered effect his ends that ? Mr '" . Pitt " Life sometimes of Riht uses lion very . William slight
g Pitt . " By Earl Stanhope . ( Murray . ) VOX . IX . S
Lady Hester Stanhope. 233
LADY HESTER STANHOPE . 233
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/17/
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