Having glanced through the contents, I recommended her
to Colburn, as the universal speculator in paper and print; but his
highness is playing _magnifico_, a la Murray, in his new mansion, it
would seem; for he, as I have since learned, refused to publish.
At length, after trying Allman and others, belle Harriette hit upon
Stockdale, who having made some bad hits in his time, thought a
little _courtesanish_ scandal could not make bad worse. Under his
superintendence real names were substituted for the fictitious; and it
is said, that the choice notes of the lady are interwoven and extended,
connected and illustrated, by the same elegant Apollo who used to write
love letters for Mary Ann, and ~58~~love epistles to half a thousand,
including Bang and the Bantum, in the dark refectory of the celebrated
mother Wood, the Lady of the Priory, or Lisle-street Convent." "If
such is the case, 'how are the mighty fallen!'" said I.------But let us
return to the ball-room. As the night advanced, a few more stars made
their appearance in the firmament of beauty; among these, Crony pointed
out some of the demirespectables, attracted thither either by curiosity
or the force of old habit: among these was Charles Wy--h--m's bit of
rue, that herb of grace, the once beautiful Mrs. Ho--g--s, since
closely connected with the whiskered Lord P-----, to whose brother, the
Honourable F------g, her daughter, the elegant Miss W--------n, had the
good fortune to be early married.
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