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Bunker said, work-girls were countesses.

"I know people consider me a bad man!" he said.


"Let them! I don't care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I'd throttle if they stood in my way.


I have an adored, a priceless mother, and two or three friends-you among them-and as for the rest I only care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful.


And most of them are harmful, especially the women.


Yes, dear boy," he continued, "I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met any women-countesses or cooks-who were not venal.


I have not yet met that divine purity and devotion I look for in women.


If I found such a one I'd give my life for her! But those!.


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" and he made a gesture of contempt.


"And believe me, if I still value my life it is only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will regenerate, purify, and elevate me.


But you don't understand it.


" James's, which opened into that of her aunt, the Duchess of Kendal's: apartments occupied by George II. after his queen's death, and by his successive mistresses, the Countesses of Suffolk and Yarmouth.

Being the posterity of popes, though of worse families than the ancient nobility, they expect greater respect than my ladies the countesses and marquises will pay them; consequently they consort not, but mope in a vast palace with two mniserable tapers, and two or three monsignori, whom they are forced to court and humour, that they may not be entirely deserted.

Sa Majest`e Patapanique(721) has had a dreadful misfortune!-not lost his first minister, nor his purse--nor had part of his camp equipage burned in the river, nor waited for his secretary of state, who is perhaps blown to Flanders--nay, nor had his chair pulled from under him-worse! worse! quarrelling with a great pointer last night about their countesses, he received a terrible shake by the back and a bruise on the left eye--poor dear Pat! you never saw such universal consternation! it was at supper.

They have invited ten peeresses to walk: all somehow or other dashed with blood-royal, and rather than not have King James's daughter attended by princesses, they have fished out two or three countesses descended from his competitor Monmouth.

The fame of the Violetta(1212) increases daily; the sister-Countesses of Burlington and Talbot exert all their stores of sullen partiality in competition for her- the former visits her, and is having her picture, and carries her to Chiswick, and she sups at Lady Carlisle's, and lies--indeed I have not heard where, but I know not at Leicester House, where she is in great disgrace, for not going once or twice a week to take lessons of Denoyer, as he(1213) bid her: you know, that is politics in a court where dancing-masters are ministers.

I could see but little of them, as it was very late, except that one of the Countesses has a headdress exactly like the description of Mount Parnassus, with two tops.

There are all the successions of Earls and Countesses of Bedford, and all their progenies.

The result was, that he was prosecuted by the Attorney-general, and fined one thousand pounds.-E. (443) Mr. Walpole had given this Chinese name to a pond of gold fish at Strawberry Hill. (444) A Swiss servant of Erasmus Shorter's, maternal uncle to Mr. Walpole, who was not without suspicion of having hastened his master's death. (445) The Countesses of Thanet and Burlington were sisters. (446) The Analysis of Beauty. (447) "The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tadmor in the Desert," by Robert Wood, Esq.; a splendid volume in folio, with a number of elegant engravings.

Lady Pembroke, alone at the head of the countesses, was the picture of majestic modesty; the Duchess of Richmond as pretty as nature and dress, with no pains of her own, could make her; Lady Spencer, Lady Sutherland, and Lady Northampton, very pretty figures.

My next assembly will be entertaining; there will be five countesses, two bishops, fourteen Jews, five papists, a doctor of physic, and an actress; not to mention Scotch, Irish, East and West Indians.

The Countesses of Carlisle and Berkeley, too, I hear, will set up their staves there for some time; but as my heart is faithful to Lady Mary, they would not charm me if they were forty times more Disposed to it.

We have had the usual number of travelling Counts and Countesses, Yankees male and female, and a Yankee-Doodle-Dandy into the bargain, a smart young Virginia man.

Seriously, _mio Caro W._, if you can spare a moment from Matrimony, I shall be glad to hear that you have recovered from the pucker into which this _Vis_ (one would think it had been a _Sulky_) has thrown you; you know I wish you well, and if I have not inflicted my society upon you according to your own Invitation, it is only because I am not a social animal, and should feel sadly at a loss amongst Countesses and Maids of Honour, particularly being just come from a far Country, where Ladies are neither carved for, or fought for, or danced after, or mixed at all (publicly) with the Men-folks, so that you must make allowances for my natural _diffidence_ and two years travel.

Becky, too, knew some ladies here and there-French widows, dubious Italian countesses, whose husbands had treated them ill-faugh-what shall we say, we who have moved among some of the finest company of Vanity Fair, of this refuse and sediment of rascals? I sought my ideal of a woman amongst English ladies, French countesses, Italian signoras, and German gräfinnen.

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