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164 afterwards lent me a score of pieces, when, as I firmly believe, you had heard the news that old Lady Girnington had a touch of the dead palsy. But don't be down-cast, John; I believe, after all, you like me very well in your way, and it is my misfortune to have no better counsellor at present.—To return to this Lady Blenkensop, you must know she is a close confederate of Duchess Sarah."

"What, of Sall Jennings!" exclaimed Graigengelt; "then she must be a good one."

"Hold your tongue, and keep your Tory rants to yourself, if it be possible," said Bucklaw; "I tell you, that through the Duchess of Marlborough has this Northumbrian cousin of mine become a crony of Lady Ashton, the Keeper's wife, or, I may say, the Lord Keeper's Lady Keeper, and she has favoured Lady Bienkensop with a visit on her return from London, and is just now at her old mansion-house