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body but those who expected it. People are really not half thankful enough to her, she gives them so much to talk about. What, after all, is the great staple of conversation?—why, the faults and follies of others; and, generally speaking, they are insipid enough. How grateful, therefore, we ought to be to her Grace, whose follies are all of the most original order! Why, there is invention enough in them for a history,—
"As histories are in these degenerate days."
And now for the toilet of your affectionate
Henrietta.
