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Updated: May 29, 2025

Per contra, were Lady P , who had put a wig on, and old E , who had scratched hers off; Lady S , the Dowager E , and a Lady Say and Sele, with her tresses coal-black, and her hair coal-white. Well! it was all delightful, but not half so charming as its being over.

Horace Walpole - Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I