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298, which are always left out. If you want any thing more, ask Mr. Palmer for it, he has an excellent library, and I never objected to any of the books he has lent you. Indeed he is a well-informed man, I must say, and has practised 'forget and forgive' to me ever since I returned, and, I trust, will do so about the money I borrowed, at least till the publication of my work. As to reading many books, it would be nonsense, as I am certain I have seen enough, and can relate enough, to astonish any body; my own brother's history, during twenty-three years, would make a huge quarto. I have had domestic scenes, too, that would have effect upon paper." "Dear, dear mamma!" cried Georgiana, in absolute terror, "you surely would not put any thing in print about uncle or papa?" "Not if I can help it, and fill up the book, certainly, for it might kill poor Rotheles. Granard it could not hurt; but nobody wants anecdotes of private gentlemen, except they were great orators, like that red-nosed Sheridan, or great writers, like Scott. No; the charm in all such books, is stories of royalty, and undoubtedly I can tell several; not only of what I have read in letters addressed to my mother, and which, by the by, should never have been permitted to fall into my hands, as the old Countess of Ck very justly observed—not but she gave me herself all the particulars of things I could not make out. I have all the history of the beautiful Mrs.