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who, according to his usual custom, was dispensing his entertaining
anecdotes of all his acquaintance who graced the present scene. "That
is Amy Campbell, otherwise Sydenham, &e., &c, but now legally Bochsa, of
whom Harriette has since told so many agreeable stories relative to
the black puddings and Argyle; however, considerable suspicion attaches
itself to Harriette's anecdotes of her elder sister, particularly as
she herself admits they were not very good friends, and Harriette never
would forgive Amy for seducing the Duke of Argyle from his allegiance
to her. Mrs. Campbell was for some years the favourite sultana of his
grace, and has a son by him, a fine boy, now about twelve years of age,
who goes by the family name, and for whose support the kind-hearted duke
allows the mother a very handsome annuity. Amy is certainly a woman of
considerable talent; a good musician, as might have been expected from
her attachment to the harpist, and an excellent linguist, speaking the
French, Spanish, and Italian languages with the greatest fluency. In
her person she begins to exhibit the ravages of time, is somewhat
_embonpoint_, with ~48~~dark hair and fine eyes, but rather of the
keen order of countenance than the agreeable; and report says, that
the Signior composer, amid his plurality of wives, never found a more
difficult task to preserve the equilibrium of domestic harmony.
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