But as yet I could find no man whom I considered suitable or worthy.

One or two I knew, but they were not peers, and I wished her to marry a peer or a rising politician who would earn or inherit a peerage.
And so, good easy man, I looked around me, and said that full surely my greatness was a-ripening.

Who thinks of winter and its frosts in the glow of such a summer as I enjoyed?
For a while everything went well.

I took a house in Green Street, and entertained there during the sitting of Parliament.

The beauty of the hostess, my daughter Jane, together with my own position and wealth, of which she was the heiress, were sufficient to find us friends, or at any rate associates, among the noblest and most distinguished in the land, and for several seasons my dinner parties were some of the most talked about in London.