No doubt her ladyship thought to put a fresh and greater humiliation upon me; you would not be present to blunt the edge of the insult of those creatures' glances.

She carried me to Vauxhall, where a fuller scope might be given to the pursuit of my shame and mortification.

Instead, what think you happened ?" "Her ladyship, I trust, was disappointed." "The word is too poor to describe her condition.

She broke a fan, beat her black boy and dismissed a footman, that she might vent some of the spleen it moved in her.

Never was such respect, never such homage shown to any woman as was shown to me that evening.