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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER V
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To resume my narrative, I slept there on Sunday night.

On Monday morning, after breakfast, I walked to town with Luttrell, whom I found a delightful companion.

Before we went, we sate and chatted with Lord Holland in the library for a quarter of an hour.
He was very entertaining.

He gave us an account of a visit which he paid long ago to the Court of Denmark; and of King Christian, the madman, who was at last deprived of all real share in the government on account of his infirmity.

"Such a Tom of Bedlam I never saw," said Lord Holland.
"One day the Neapolitan Ambassador came to the levee, and made a profound bow to his Majesty.


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