What is most wonderful is, the exemption they seem to enjoy from the curse entailed on the sex.

They see all company the day of their delivery, and, at the fortnight's end, return visits, set out in their jewels and new clothes.

I wish I may find the influence of the climate in this particular.

But I fear I shall continue an Englishwoman in that affair." Lady Mary gave birth to a daughter, Mary, in February.

"I don't mention this as one of my diverting adventures," she wrote to Lady Mar, "though I must own that it is not half so mortifying here as in England, there being as much difference as there is between a little cold in the head, which sometimes happens here, and the consumptive cough, so common in London.