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months . The swain had learned to counterfeit Lady Sarah Bunbury ' s hand so well , that in tHe country Lord Ilchester has himself delivered several of O'Brien ' s letters to Lady Susan ; but it was not till about a week before the
catastrophe that the family was apprised of the intrigue . Lord Cathcart went to Miss Reade ' s , the paintress—she said softly to him—* My lord , there is a couple in next room that I am sure ought not to be together ;
I wish your lordship would look in . ' He did , shut the door again , and went and informed Lord Ilchester . Lady Susan was examined , flung herself at her father ' s feet , confessed all , vowed to break offbut—what a but!—desired to
see the loved object , and take a last leave . You will be amazed—even this was granted . The parting scene happened the beginning of the week . On Friday she came of age , and on Saturday
morning—instead of being under lock and key in the countrywalked down stairs , took her footman , said she was going to breakfast with Lady Sarah , but
would call at Miss Reade ' s ; in the street , pretended to recollect a particular cap in which she was to be drawn , sent the footman back for it , whipped into a hackney-chair , was mar-
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ried at Covent garden Church , and set out for Mr O'Brien ' s villa at Dunstable . My Lady —my Lady Hertford ! what say you to permitting young ladies to act plays , and go to painters by themselves ? "Poor Lord Ilchester is
almost distracted , ; indeed it is the completion of disgraceeven a footman were preferable ; the publicity of the hero ' s profession perpetuates the mortification . // ne sera pas milord tout comme un autre . I could
not have believed that Lady Susan would have stooped so low . She may , however , still keep good company , and say 6 nos numeri sumus . ' Lady Mary Duncan , Lady Caroline Adair , Lady Betty Gallinithe shopkeepers of next age will be mighty well born . " *
The Lady Mary Duncan , whose surname is thus contemptuously mentioned , was daughter of the Earl of Thanet , and married a physician . The
husband of Lady Caroline Adair , a daughter of the Earl of Albemarle , was a surgeon . f We shall notice these superciliousnesses of Horace at
the conclusion of our article . In a book , printed at Harrisburgh , in America , in the year 1811 , and entitled Memoirs of a Life chiefly passed in Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years , &c , is an account of
* * Letters to the Earl of Hertford , ' &c , p . 106 . f The same , if our memory does not deceive us , to whom an article is assigned in the Lounger's Common-Place Book . For some curious accounts of Lady Mary Duncan ' s eccentricities and generosity , see Madame d'Arblay ' s Memoirs of Dr Burney . We remember being shewn her ladyship in her old age , a robust , hard-featured woman , dressed in the costume she / wore when young , —a toupee , hoop , &c . ; looking most fantastic , like the sojicj ghost of another century . -
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Marriages from the Stage . 169
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/25/
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