I shall not interfere, unless she hold a high court of justice again.

I cannot afford to pay another fine to my brother, King Charles--But I forget--this is a sore point with you." "With the Countess, at least," replied Julian; "and I wonder you will speak of it." "Why, I bear no malice against the poor man's memory any more than yourself, though I have not the same reasons for holding it in veneration," replied the Earl of Derby; "and yet I have some respect for it too.

I remember their bringing him out to die--It was the first holiday I ever had in my life, and I heartily wish it had been on some other account." "I would rather hear you speak of anything else, my lord," said Julian.
"Why, there it goes," answered the Earl; "whenever I talk of anything that puts you on your mettle, and warms your blood, that runs as cold as a merman's--to use a simile of this happy island--hey pass! you press me to change the subject .-- Well, what shall we talk of ?--O Julian, if you had not gone down to earth yourself among the castles and caverns of Derbyshire, we should have had enough of delicious topics--the play-houses, Julian--Both the King's house and the Duke's--Louis's establishment is a jest to them;--and the Ring in the Park, which beats the Corso at Naples--and the beauties, who beat the whole world!" "I am very willing to hear you speak on the subject, my lord," answered Julian; "the less I have seen of London world myself, the more I am likely to be amused by your account of it." "Ay, my friend--but where to begin ?--with the wit of Buckingham, and Sedley, and Etherege, or with the grace of Harry Jermyn--the courtesy of the Duke of Monmouth, or with the loveliness of La Belle Hamilton--of the Duchess of Richmond--of Lady -- --, the person of Roxalana, the smart humour of Mrs.Nelly----" "Or what say you to the bewitching sorceries of Lady Cynthia ?" demanded his companion.
"Faith, I would have kept these to myself," said the Earl, "to follow your prudent example.

But since you ask me, I fairly own I cannot tell what to say of them; only I think of them twenty times as often as all the beauties I have spoken of.

And yet she is neither the twentieth part so beautiful as the plainest of these Court beauties, nor so witty as the dullest I have named, nor so modish--that is the great matter--as the most obscure.