" Such is the reward of restoring a woman to
her family, who are treating her with the greatest kindness, and with
whom I am on good terms. I am still in _palatia Circes_, and, being no
Ulysses, cannot tell into what animal I may be converted; as you are
aware of the turn of both parties, your conjectures will be very
correct, I daresay, and, seriously, I am very much _attached_. She has
had her share of the denunciations of the brilliant Phryne, and regards
them as much as I do. I hope you will visit me at K. which will not be
ready before spring, and I am very sure you would like my neighbours if
you knew them. If you come down now to Kington [7], pray come and see me.
[Footnote 1:
"Byron often talks of the authors of the 'Rejected Addresses', and
always in terms of unqualified praise. He says that the imitations,
unlike all other imitations, are full of genius. 'Parodies,' he said,
'always give a bad impression of the original, but in the 'Rejected
Addresses' the reverse was the fact;' and he quoted the second and
third stanzas, in imitation of himself, as admirable, and just what he
could have wished to write on a similar subject"
(Lady Blessington's 'Conversations', p. 134).]
[Footnote 2:
"The Bessboroughs," writes Lady H. Leveson Gower to Lady G. Morpeth,
September 12, 1812 ('Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville', vol. i.
pp. 40, 41), "have been unpacked about a couple of hours. My aunt
looks stout and well, but poor Caroline most terribly the contrary.
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