Life in the nineteenth century. The postman's knock. The twenty-thousand-pound widow. To Brighton and back again. On some clubs, and their ends. Through the parks. Some Scotswomen. The Dibdins. Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. Edward Wortley Montagu. Royal and imperial jokersRichard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, 1881 |
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Side 274 - Take care, Fanny, what you say: I love you sincerely; but I cannot forget my obligations to Lady Hamilton, or speak of her otherwise than with affection and admiration.
Side 261 - Lady Hamilton has been wonderfully kind and good to Josiah. She is a young woman of amiable manners and who does honour to the station to which she is raised.
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