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LADY HESTER STANHOPE. 299
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Part Ii. Fiiattery Is Sometimes A Low Re...
_rep Cumberland lied she , " was when particularl lie is as partial harmless to Lad as they Hester are . " whom The , he Duke called of
y y , Ms little " aide-de-camp . " She delighted to recall the compliments which William Pitt paid to her . He would say , for instance ,
accordof Ing disinterested to her account friendshi , that he and only that knew being one was "being herself in the . world " If you capable were
a manHester" he would p , exclaim at another time , " I could send you on , the Continent , to command an army , with the full confidence
• who that opinion none unite . of She the my prided plan of s herself would conceiving on fail being . " important Lad one y of Hester those plans was rare with quite individuals the of most his
minute attention power to administrative details . Her criticisms on the Duke of Wellington were highly characteristic . It was not
suffi-Arthur cient that Wellesley Mr . Pitt with , during the hig his hest last admiration illness , , spoke praising constantl especiall y of y
this the He was Hiodest man a was man y with but of which a roug leasure h he soldier bore she , said his wanting reputation who the danced di . gnit and To y of Lad drank a y courtier Hester hard . :
his star " had done p everything , for him , ; he was no tactician , and not a good general . As for the battle of Waterloo , she believed it
The was The sheer crisis triump in good her hs luck of life Lad . was y Hester at hand . were It is not said destined that Pompey to last for told ever his .
wife she did wrong to be astonished at his reverses , because fortune had been on his side too long to give him any more of her favours .
There seems to be a strange law of compensation in earthly things , by We which must each all suffer state in of turn life . has There its own is undeniabl blessings y and a bli its ght own in pains unin- .
buoyantl terrupted y prosperit over the y waves ; but of few life need , and fear our last it , for sorrow when is we so are far behind sailing much that almost forget its existencewe are sometimes so
us nearer the we next one . A vertigo of prosperit , y seems to be a law of Dur imperfect nature . Arrived at the highest point of distinction h ,
men appear like buildings , which , when they tower too hig , are more liable to disastrous falls . During the lifetime of PittLadHester never thought of
in-, y _quiring lependent how on many the presti of the ge of praises his name which ; nor flattered did it occur her vanit to her y mind were
bo reflect how little important she would be if her . uncle were no Longer iven by in his office niece . We The need details not linger differ on a the little account from of those Pitt ' which s death are as
. _^ related by Giflbrd . This biographer asserted , on the authority of in the earnest doctor and the and clergyman devoted , that to the Mr consideration . Pitt ' s last moment of reli s ion were . spent Lady g
. prayer , Eester indifference passionatel to holy y things denied had this never fact . abated According , and mind he to who her , never his Mr . death Pitt went ' s - church durinhis lifetime was of the same upon
D : o ed . It may g g ive rise to fair suspicion that Lady Hester ' s account
Lady Hester Stanhope. 299
LADY HESTER STANHOPE . 299
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/11/
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