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Lady Mary Wortley Montague

CHAPTER XIII
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"I say so confidently, for Mr.Chute agrees with me: he says, for the _Epistle from Arthur Grey_, scarce any woman could have written it, and no man; for a man who had had experience enough to paint such sentiments so well, would not have had warmth enough left.

Do you know anything of Lady Mary?
Her adventurous son is come in Parliament, but has not opened." From Florence, Lady Mary repaired to Rome.

There, she did not see the Chevalier de St.George, but she did see his two sons, Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, and Henry, Cardinal York.

"The eldest seems thoughtless enough, and is really not unlike Mr.Lyttelton in his shape and air," she wrote to Montagu.

"The youngest is very well made, dances finely, and has an ingenuous countenance; he is but fourteen years of age.


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