Duchess Susan came out of it more scatheless than her duke.

She was tongue-tied, and her tutored walking and really admirable stature helped her to appease, the critics of her sex; by whom her too readily blushful innocence was praised, with a reserve, expressed in the remark, that she was a monstrous fine toy for a duke's second childhood, and should never have been let fly from his nursery.

Her milliner was approved.

The duke was a notorious connoisseur of female charms, and would see, of course, to the decorous adornment of her person by the best of modistes.

Her smiling was pretty, her eyes were soft; she might turn out good, if well guarded for a time; but these merits of the woman are not those of the great lady, and her title was too strong a beam on her character to give it a fair chance with her critics.