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 I suppose, like Lady Wortley Montague, is of opinion, that the face is not the most beautiful part of woman; at least, if I am to judge from these elaborate ancles. Now the countenance of this Donna, forsooth, has a drowsy placidity worthy of the easy chair she is lolling in, and yet her ancle would not disgrace the contorted frame of the most pious Faquir."

"Well! I'm an admirer of Newton's paintings."

"Oh! so am I. He's certainly a cleverish fellow, but rather too much among the blues; a set, of whom, I would venture to say, Miss Manvers knoweth little about? "

"Oh, not the least! Mamma does not visit that way. What are they?"

"Oh, very powerful people! though  'Mamma does not visit that way?'  They live chiefly about Cumberland Gate. Their words are Ukases as far as Curzon Street, and very Decretals in the general vicinity of May Fair;