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Out This Century.
Horry Tells Me That A Scheme Has Been Formed, Of Replacing Charles,
But That Lord North Will Not Hear Of It. I Should Certainly Myself
Have The Same Repugnance. But As I Love Charles More Than I Do The
Other, I Wish That, Or Anything Which Can Put Him Once More In a Way
Of Establishment. I Shall However Not Have Any Hopes Of That, Till
He Is Less Intoxicated Than He Is With The All Sufficiency, As He
Imagines, Of His Parts. I Think That, And His Infinite Contempt Of
The Qu'En Dira-T-On, Upon Every Point Which Governs The Rest Of
Mankind, Are The Two And (Sic) Chief Sources Of All His Misfortunes.
Ste, They Tell Me, Has Come To A Resolution Of Selling Holland
H(Ouse) As Soon As Possible, And Of Rebuilding Winterslow. If Lady
Holland Had Not Died Just As She Did, I Believe That I Should Have
Had Him And Lady Mary Here For Some Days, Which I Should Have Liked
Very Well.
I Have Got A Prize In barbot'S Lottery, As It May Be Conty Has Told
You. I Left A Man In London, When I Came Away, With A Commission To
See That Justice Was Done Me, And To Send My Pye, If I Should Have
One, Into Kent. Mine Is A Quatre Perdrises (Sic); So I Have No
Reason To Complain Of Conty'S Lotteries, For I Have Had A Prize In
Both Of Them.
If You Intend To Buy A Ticket In The State Lottery, I Should Be Glad
To Have A Share Of It With Lady C(Arlisle), Lord Morpeth, And Little
Caroline, That Is, One Ticket Between Us Five. Three Of My Tenants
Chapter 18 Pg 141Joined For One In The Lottery Two Or Three Years Since, And They Got
A 20,000 Pound Prize. I Made A Visit To One Of Them The Other Day,
Whose Farm Is Not Far Off, And He Had Made It The Prettiest In The
World; And He Has Three Children To Share His 10,000, For One Moiety
Of This Ticket Was His.
Pray Make My Very Best Compliments To Lady C. And Lady J.,(116) And
Give My Hearty Love To Caroline; And As For The Little Marmot, Tell
Him That If He Treats His Sister With Great Attention I Shall Love
Him Excessively, But S'Il Fait Le Fier, Because He Is A Viscount And
A Howard, I Shall Give Him Several Spanks Upon His Dernere. Make
Storer Write To Me, And Make Ekins Read Atterbury Till He Can Say
Him By Heart.
(116) Lady Juliana Howard Was Lord Carlisle'S Youngest Sister. She
Died Unmarried.
By The End Of August, Selwyn Had Escaped From Gloucester And Was
Again Among His Friends And In His Favourite Haunts In London.
[1774,] Aug. 25, Thursday Night, Almack'S.--Here Are The Duke Of
Roxb[Urgh], Vernon, James, And Sir W. Draper At Whist; Boothby,
Richard, And R. Fletcher At Quinze. I Dined To-Day At The Duke Of
Argyle'S(117) At A Quarter Before Four. He And The Duchess Went To
Richmond At Six. The Maccaroni Dinner Was At Mannin'S. My Eyes Are
Still Very Painful To Me At Night, And I Do Not Know What I Shall Do
For Them. I Hear Of No News; That Of The Duchess Of Leinster'S(118)
Match Is Very Equivoque; And Extreme Their Drawing-Room.
I (Am) In constant Expectation Of Being Sent For Again To
Gloucester, And Begin (Sic) A Canvas. I Think If I Prevent It, And
An Opposition, I Shall Be Very Vain Of My Conduct. There Is Nothing
So Flattering As The Shewing People Who Thought That They Could Dupe
You, That You Know More Of The Matter Than They Do. I Know Too
Little To Be Active, But Have Prudence Enough To Take No Steps While
I Am In The Dark Upon The Suggestion Of Others Who Cannot Possibly
Interest Themselves For Me. But I Really Think It Will Be A Miracle
If This Is Not A Troublesome And Expensive Election To Me. However,
I Will Not Anticipate The Evil By Groaning About It Before It
Happens. . . .
The Duke Of Newcastle Is To Bring Will Hanger Into Parliament, But
What Is To Pay For His Chair To Go Down To The House The Lord Knows;
They Tell Me That There Is Absolutely Not A Shilling Left.
(117) John, Fifth Duke Of Argyll (1723-1806). He Had Married For His
Second Wife The Duchess Of Hamilton, Nee Gunning, The Famous Beauty.
(118) Lady Amelia Mary (1731-1814), Daughten, Neer Of Charles, Second Duke
Of Richmond, As Celebrated For Her Beauty And Charm As Her Sisters,
Lady Holland, Lady Louisa Connolly, And Lady Sarah Bunbury, The
Chapter 18 Pg 142Reference Is Evidently To Her Approaching Second Marriage To Mr.
Ogilvy.
The Correspondence Of 1775 Begins With The Frequent Story Of Charles
Fox'S Debts. It Has Been Well Said Of Carlisle, That Each Fresh
Instance Of Prodigality In Fox "Affected His Generous Heart With
Anxiety For The Character, The Health, And The Happiness Of His
Friend Before He Found Time To Compute And Lament Its Calamitous
Influence On His Own Fortunes."(119) Selwyn'S Solicitude For The
Welfare Of His Friend Urged Him, As We See In The Following Letter,
To Something Like Impatient Expostulation On His Forbearance And
Good Nature.
(1775?) (Beginning Wanting.) . . . Gregg Wants Me To Dun Charles. He
Lost Last Night 800 Pounds, As Brooks Told Me To-Day. He Receives
Money From More The Attorney. He Forestalls All He Is To Receive,
And Unless The Importunity Begins With You, Mine Will Avail Nothing.
Besides, I Fairly Own That I Cannot Keep My Temper. My Ideas,
Education, And Former Experience, Or Inexperience, Of These Things,
Make Me See Some Things In The Most Horrible Light Which You Can
Conceive, And I Am Far From Being Singular. Pray Write A Letter To
Charles, A Tella Fin Que De Raison; Otherwise There Will Be No
Ability Left, And Then It Will Be To No Purpose.
What Management You Choose To Have With Him Is More Than I Can
Comprehend. I Can Conceive The Intimacy Between You. Your Delicacy
Of Temper, Ten Thousand Nuances De Sentiments. But I Can Never
Conceive That All Feeling, All The Principle, &C., Should Be Of One
Side Only. If You Don'T Press It, He Will Not Think It Pressing, And
Will Say So; That Must Depend Upon What You Choose To Reveal. He May
Not Think You Want It, Or May Think That All Mire In Which He
Wallows Is As Indifferent To You As To Him. Je Me Perds Dans Toutes
Ces Reflections. My God, If They Did Not Concern You, I Should Not
Care Who Were The Objects Of Them.
(119) "The Early History Of Charles James Fox," P. 460.
1775, Aug. 1, Tuesday Afternoon, From Your Own House, Below Stairs.
--I Came From Richmond This Morning On Purpose To Meet Gregg Here To
Dinner, And We Have Had Our Leg Of Mutton Together; A Poor Epitome
Of Roman Greatness. I Believe, As Lord Grantham Told Me, Few Have
So Little Philosophy As I Have. You Have A Great Deal, Having A Much
More Manly Understanding. . . .
I Have Been Misunderstood About Stavordale, Because Just What You
Tell Me You Approve Of Is What I Meant To Propose, Or If I Had Any
Conception Beyond It, It Was From A Sudden Thought Which I Retract.
I Have Said A Few Words To Charles, But I Do Not Find That He Has
More Intercourse With Him Than You Have. He Says That There Can Be
Chapter 18 Pg 143No Doubt Of The Validity And Payment Of The Debt, And There Is No
Anticipation Of It. But It Is Not To Be Expected That Charles Should
Think More Of Stavordale'S Debt Than His Own. He Lost In Three
Nights Last Week 3,000, As He Told Me Himself, And Has Lent Richard
God Knows What; The Account, And Friendship, And Want Of It, Between
Them Is As Incomprehensible To Me As All The Rest Of Their History.
It Is A Mystery I Shall Never Enquire Into, When What Concerns You
Is Out Of The Question. I Never Heard Of The Same Thing In all The
First Part Of My Life, And It Shall Be My Own Fault If I Hear Any
More Of It.
I Rode Over Yesterday To Lord Besborough'S At Roehampton, On Purpose
To See Lord Fitzwilliam,(120) And Had A Long Discourse With Him In
The Garden. He Was Excessively Pleased With The Account Which I Gave
Him Of The Present State Of Your Affairs, Together With Your Manner
Of Expressing Yourself About Them. Every Word Which Dropped From Him
Discovered The Real Interest Which He Took In Whatever Concerned
You, And His Affection For You. He Is A Very Valuable Young Man.
Hare Went Away Without Being Certain That He Was To Go To Castle H.
He Will Excuse Me If I Don'T Rely Upon His Resolute Was To Gat
Gates Had So Splendidly Started. Nu Delta Was In The Throes Of One Of
Those Changes So Characteristic Of Fraternities.
Chapter 19 Pg 144
Hugh Spent His Last College Vacation At Home, Working On The Farm,
Reading, Occasionally Dancing At Corley Lake, And Thinking A Great Deal.
He Saw Janet Harton, Now Janet Moffitt, Several Times At The Lake And
Wondered How He Could Ever Have Adored Her. She Was Still Childlike,
Still Dainty And Pretty, But To Hugh She Was Merely A Talking Doll, And
He Felt A Little Sorry For Her Burly, Rather Stupid Husband Who Lumbered
About After Her Like A Protecting Watch-Dog.
He Met Plenty Of Pretty Girls At The Lake, But, As He Said, He Was "Off
Women For Good." He Was Afraid Of
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