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I was rejoiced to find myself again in London. I went to my father's house in Grosvenor-square. All the family, viz. he and my mother, were down at H t d; and, malgre my aversion to the country, I thought I might venture as far as Lady S 's for a couple of days. Accordingly, to H t d I went. That is really a noble house such a hall such a gallery.
"Should you have any commands in England, a letter directed to me in Grosvenor-square will be sure to find me; and you may rely upon my immediately spreading among our mutual acquaintance in London, the happy measure you are about to adopt, and my opinions on its propriety. "Adieu, my dear Sir, "With the greatest respect and truth, "Yours, "H. Pelham."
'Think, wrote Hannah More, 'of Johnson's having apartments in Grosvenor-square! but he says it is not half so convenient as Bolt-court. H. More's Memoirs, i.2O7. See ante, iii. 250. Shakspeare makes Hamlet thus describe his father: Milton thus pourtrays our first parent, Adam: Once, when the footman was out of the way, he ordered the coachman to fetch some water from the well.
Erasmus had at the time pleaded in the poor fellow's favour, and had, afterwards, when the servant was out of place, in distress, and ill, humanely attended him, and cured a child of his, who had inflamed eyes. This man was now in the service of a rich and very fine lady, who lived in Grosvenor-square Lady Spilsbury.
Now it is quite clear that however brilliant might have been the prospects of the Flybekins, the peer and his lady wished them any where but in London; and, rather than invite them to Grosvenor-square to dinner, the former would have been glad to be let off with a writership for one of the sons in India.
A few weeks after, Ferdinand, who had evaded the journey with his family, and who would not on any account become a guest of his cousin, settled himself down at a quiet hotel in the vicinity of Grosvenor-square; but not quite alone, for almost at the last hour Glastonbury had requested permission to accompany him, and Ferdinand, who duly valued the society of the only person with whom he could converse about his broken fortunes and his blighted hopes without reserve, acceded to his wish with the greatest satisfaction.
"Will you send this in your letter to Helena Delacour, and tell her that is the thing that gold fishes are so fond of? And tell her that it is called lemna, and that it may be found in any ditch or pool." "But how can she find ditches and pools in Grosvenor-square, my dear?" "Oh, I forgot that. Then will you tell her, mamma, that I will send her a great quantity?" "How, my dear?"
We shall just be in time, and then we can send messages to Grosvenor-square and Brook-street. What say you, Armine? You will come, of course? 'Thank you, if you would excuse me. 'No, no; why excuse you? said Lord Montfort: 'I think it shabby to desert us now, after all our adventures. 'Really you are very kind, but I never dine out. 'Dine out! What a phrase!
Lord Colambre read, and was convinced that his father had never written or read the letter, but had signed it, trusting to Sir Terence O'Fay's having expressed his sentiments properly. "Sir, your obedient humble servant, "Grosvenor-square."
Temple has purchased the mansion of the Duke of , in Grosvenor-square. Lord Montfort accompanied Mr. Temple and his amiable daughter to this country. What a wild and fiery chaos was the mind of Ferdinand Armine when he read this paragraph. The wonders it revealed succeeded each other with such rapidity that for some time he was deprived of the power of reflection. Henrietta Temple in England!
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