Miss Robinson was a singer of the highest repute, of the most amiable character, and kindest disposition.

There was no reason why the match should not have been publicly acknowledged, as the lady was held in universal esteem; but, with his usual eccentricity, the earl insisted on the marriage being kept a secret, and did not announce it until on his death bed in the year 1735.

Lady Peterborough lived in profound retirement, universally beloved and honored, to the age of eighty-eight.
Upon arriving in London Jack stayed for a few days with his friend Graham, whose family lived there.

The earl had told the young officer that he would introduce them to the queen, but, on their calling by appointment on him at his hotel on the third day after their arrival in town, Peterborough said: "You had best go about your own business for a time; the queen is out of temper.

The ears of ministers have been poisoned by lying letters from my enemies in Spain, but it will all come right in time.