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She had been reading Madame d'Arblay's Camilla; and becoming enamored of the delicacy and pensive silence of the interesting heroine, she determined on adopting the same character; and at the same time taking it into her ever-creative brain that Constantine's coldness bore a striking affinity to the caution of Edgar Mandelbert, she wiped the rouge from her pretty face, and prepared to "let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek."

All dinner time he hardly opened his mouth but to repeat to me: "Ah! you little know how ill I am." He was excessively kind to me in spite of all his pain. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 228. On Jan. 10 he thus ended a letter to Mr. Nichols: 'Now I will put you in a way of shewing me more kindness. Come sometimes and see, Sir, 'Your humble servant, MS. in the British Museum. 'Dr.

Once I was quite frightened about him; but he continues his strange discipline starving, mercury, opium; and though for a time half demolished by its severity, he always in the end rises superior both to the disease and the remedy, which commonly is the most alarming of the two. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 107.

D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 45. Two months later the quarrel was made up. 'Mr. Pepys had desired this meeting by way of a reconciliation; and Dr. Johnson now made amends for his former violence, as he advanced to him, as soon as he came in, and holding out his hand to him received him with a cordiality he had never shewn him before. Indeed he told me himself that he thought the better of Mr.

Miss Burney wrote of her: 'Allowing a little for parade and ostentation, which her power in wealth and rank in literature offer some excuse for, her conversation is very agreeable. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 325. See post, April 7, 1778, note. 'Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope, Sat. Ep. i. 135.

D'Arblay's Diary, i. 114. He wrote to Mrs. Thrale on Oct. 15: 'A camp, however familiarly we may speak of it, is one of the great scenes of human life. War and peace divide the business of the world. Camps are the habitations of those who conquer kingdoms, or defend them. Piozzi Letters, ii. 22. 'He made a very good figure upon these topicks.

Thrale's, about this time, at which she met Johnson, Boswell, and Dudley Long. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 14. See ante, ii.171, post, two paragraphs before April 10, 1783, and May 15, 1784. Johnson wrote on May i, 1780: 'There was the Bishop of St. Asaph who comes to every place. Piozzi Letters, ii. 111. Hannah More, in 1782, describes an assembly at this Bishop's.

'I could not have suspected him, wrote Miss Burney, 'of a bitterness of invective so cruel, so ferocious. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, iv. 185. The attack was provoked. Mrs. Piozzi, in January, 1788, published one of Johnson's letters, in which he wrote at all events she says he wrote: 'Poor B i! do not quarrel with him; to neglect him a little will be sufficient.

Cambridge, "it sounds more like some club that one reads of in The Spectator than like a real club in these times; for the forfeits of a whole year will not amount to those of a single night in other clubs." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 290. Mr. Cambridge was thinking of the Two-penny Club. Spectator, No. ix. I was in Scotland when this Club was founded, and during all the winter.

"Well then, Sir," cried I, "I hope peace now will be again proclaimed." "Why, I am now," said he, "come to that time when I wish all bitterness and animosity to be at an end." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 290. January, 1791. BOSWELL. Hastings's trial had been dragging on for more than three years when The Life of Johnson was published. It began in 1788, and ended in 1795. Gent.