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... lady should have fallen for him . So she did , however . There ensued a curious edgy courtship , with caution on both sides and wit on Lady Mary's – like a truncated Way of the World . Most lovers start precipitately and grow more ...
... lady should have fallen for him . So she did , however . There ensued a curious edgy courtship , with caution on both sides and wit on Lady Mary's – like a truncated Way of the World . Most lovers start precipitately and grow more ...
Page 149
... Lady Mary found herself an ageing expatriate , drifting from one continental refuge to another . In 1746 she settled permanently in Italy . Only in the very last year of her life , with her husband safely in his grave , did she return ...
... Lady Mary found herself an ageing expatriate , drifting from one continental refuge to another . In 1746 she settled permanently in Italy . Only in the very last year of her life , with her husband safely in his grave , did she return ...
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... Lady Mary were herself translated into the idiom of romance ; she acts up to the highfalutin ' pretensions of her ... Lady Mary , in my view , is to be found in the series of letters to her daughter , written in the last fifteen years of ...
... Lady Mary were herself translated into the idiom of romance ; she acts up to the highfalutin ' pretensions of her ... Lady Mary , in my view , is to be found in the series of letters to her daughter , written in the last fifteen years of ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
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