ite.
"The Princess Charlotte seemed much hurt at the little notice that was
taken of her birthday. After keeping me for two hours and a half she
dismissed me; and I am sure I could not say what she said, except that
it was an olio of decousus and heterogeneous things, partaking of the
characteristics of her mother, grafted on a younger scion. I dined
tete-a-tete with my dear old aunt: hers is always a sweet and soothing
society to me."
There's a pleasing, lady-like, moral extract for you! An innocent young
thing of fifteen has picturs of TWO lovers in her room, and expex a
good number more. This dellygate young creature EDGES in a good deal of
TUMDEDY (I can't find it in Johnson's Dixonary), and would have GONE ON
WITH THE THING (ellygence of languidge), if the dairy-lady would have
let her.
Now, to tell you the truth, Mr. Yorke, I doan't beleave a single
syllible of this story. This lady of honner says, in the fust place,
that the princess would have talked a good deal of TUMDEDY: which means,
I suppose, indeasnsy, if she, the lady of honner WOULD HAVE LET HER.
This IS a good one! Why, she lets every body else talk tumdedy to their
hearts' content; she lets her friends WRITE tumdedy, and, after keeping
it for a quarter of a sentry, she PRINTS it. Why then, be so squeamish
about HEARING a little! And, then, there's the stoary of the two
portricks. This woman has the honner to be received in the frendlyest
manner by a British princess; and what does the grateful loyal creature
do? 2 picturs of the princess's relations are hanging in her room, and
the Dairy-woman swears away the poor young princess's carrickter, by
swearing they are picturs of her LOVERS. For shame, oh, for shame! you
slanderin backbitin dairy-woman you! If you told all them things to
your "dear old aunt," on going to dine with her, you must have had very
"sweet and soothing society" indeed.
I had marked out many more extrax, which I intended to write about; but
I think I have said enough about this Dairy: in fack, the butler, and
the gals in the servants'-hall are not well pleased that I should go
on reading this naughty book; so we'll have no more of it, only one
passidge about Pollytics, witch is sertnly quite new:--
"No one was so likely to be able to defeat Bonaparte as the Crown
Prince, from the intimate knowledge he possessed of his character.
Bernadotte was also instigated against Bonaparte by one who not only
owed him a personal ha
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