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 which Lady Hester spoke of these serpents; and, although he did not express it, yet he half intimated that he thought her intellects a little disordered: we shall see hereafter if they were so.

Lady Hester resumed: "But now, doctor, if you can spare a minute, you must write a line by the messenger to Monsieur Guys, and tell him I had begun a letter to him, but that the arrival of two English travellers, one of whom revived a number of  recollections, had obliged me to stop short, and I could write no more. Doctor, this Mr. Forster must be one of the children of the Irish Speaker. He was left with ten; and I remember very well one day that H******** was standing before me at a party, making a number of bows and scrapes, turning up his eyes,  and cringing before me so, that when we got home, Mr. Pitt said to me, 'Hester, if I am not too curious, what could H ******** have to say that animated him so much: what could he be making such fine speeches about: what could call forth such an exuberance of eloquence in him?'—'Oh! it was nothing,' answered I; 'he was telling me that all the power of the Treasury was at my service—that he would take care that Lady S**** N*****'s pension should be got through the different offices immediately—that he had nothing so much at heart as to execute my orders—that he would see all that was necessary should be done ac-