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The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield

CHAPTER VII
10/22

The picture might prove unpleasant.
[Footnote A: Her son, Colonel Churchill, once, unconsciously, saved Sir Robert Walpole from assassination, through the latter riding home from the House in the Colonel's chariot instead of alone in his own.
Unstable Churchill married a natural daughter of Sir Robert, and their daughter Mary married, in 1777, Charles Sloane, first Earl of Cadogan....

When Churchill and his wife were travelling in France, a Frenchman, knowing he was connected with poets or players, asked him if he was Churchill the famous poet.

"I am not," said Mrs.Oldfield's son.

"Ma foi!" rejoined the polite Frenchman, "so much the worse for you."-- DR.

DORAN.] Surely we may have charity for Oldfield, when she dispensed the same virtue to those around her.


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