[Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by George Otto Trevelyan]@TWC D-Link bookLife and Letters of Lord Macaulay CHAPTER V 21/226
Their manners are softened by her presence; and any roughness and sharpness which they have in intercourse with men vanishes at once.
They seem to love the very ground that she treads on; and she is undoubtedly a charming woman, pretty, clever, lively, and polite. I was asked yesterday evening to go to Sir John Burke's, to meet another heroine who was very curious to see me.
Whom do you think? Lady Morgan. I thought, however, that, if I went, I might not improbably figure in her next novel; and, as I am not ambitious of such an honour, I kept away.
If I could fall in with her at a great party, where I could see unseen and hear unheard, I should very much like to make observations on her; but I certainly will not, if I can help it, meet her face to face, lion to lioness. That confounded chattering--, has just got into an argument about the Church with an Irish papist who has seated himself at my elbow; and they keep such a din that I cannot tell what I am writing.
There they go. The Lord Lieutenant--the Bishop of Derry-Magee--O'Connell--your Bible meetings--your Agitation meetings--the propagation of the Gospel--Maynooth College--the Seed of the Woman shall bruise the Serpent's head.
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