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Thursday
To day is a holiday, there is an end of the Cough
the Cough has done its business and Ld H. goes to School tomorrow
Ld L. has been to Court, talked French politics with the H
and the eye of the Sovereign seems to have exercised a soothing and
benignant influence. To day he visits Queen meaning the Queen
consort, but I believe would still more gladly see the Queen Regent
when Court is kept at present at the Castle. I make my retrial this
instant, leaning wrapping myself up in my virtue, and leaving the pictures
[+] and Statutes unvisited, the garret unadmired, and the Piano-forte unaccompanied. When tea was over, Miss Betsy redescended with me to the
dining-room where the piano forte is, with the magnificent
Lady Caldwell for her second escort to second her. and sing second Gen. Clark came in soon after
our return, and Lady Caldwell last Ld Lansdown. Sir J.
Coghill fixed mejoined conversation with me before supper, and gave me an invitation
in form to Coghill hall. [A kind word had What is the English of all this doubtless dropt
from Ld L observing my absence.] To a man so used accustomed to
rebuffs and reprimands averse and frozen and cold looks, it is<add>was</add>so much all this is Arabic.
It was agreed between the 2 sisters that the soul of one of
them inhabited the Garret and that that of the other was rivetted to the
Piano-forte in the room on the ground floor below
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