22/24 Mr.Percy resembles him extremely." "Was he a handsome man, then ?" "Very handsome. And Lady Lastingham was said to be a most beautiful woman." "You never saw her ?" "No, she died young. Lord Lastingham married her, as people said, for love; that is to say, her great beauty tempted him. They were very poor, and he was not of a character to bear poverty. She was good and amiable, but he wearied of her, and scarcely pretended to feel her death as a loss." "Oh! mamma, how could that be possible? |