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LADY CAROLINE LAMB I am going to Brocket, to watch the sweet trees that are coming out so beautifully, and you shall have a page while I am away." Later, as will be seen, notwithstanding Lady Morgan's modest household, the two ladies became fast friends.

When Caroline was ten years old she was transferred to the care of her grandmother. Lady Spencer, whose household consisted of seventy servants, and who herself had always lived among clever people and possessed brilliant conversational powers.—Her marriage was unconventional and romantic. Mr. Spencer had, as a minor, become attached to her; and with her father, Stephen Poyntz, a well-known diplomatist, and her mother and sister, she was invited to Althorp to celebrate the coming of age of the heir, where a large party of about fifty persons was assembled. Young Spencer informed Mr. Poyntz that now he was his own master he intended to marry his daughter the very next day. Only Lord and Lady Cowper were told besides Mr. and Mrs. Poyntz, and they and the bride and bridegroom stole away during the dancing that was going on to Lady Cowper's dressing-room, and the young couple were there duly married. They then rejoined the dancers; and it is further related that after 3