However, she has been placed in peculiar circumstances.

The daughter of a statesman who was a martyr to the rage of faction may be pardoned for speaking sharply of the enemies of her parent; and she did speak sharply.

With knitted brows, and flashing eyes, and a look of feminine vengeance about her beautiful mouth, she gave me such a character of Peel as he would certainly have had no pleasure in hearing.
In the evening Lord John Russell came; and, soon after, old Talleyrand.
I had seen Talleyrand in very large parties, but had never been near enough to hear a word that he said.

I now had the pleasure of listening for an hour and a half to his conversation.

He is certainly the greatest curiosity that I ever fell in with.