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Certainly, his manners are polished, he has a mighty easy address; and there is nothing altogether impossible about his having consorted with the master of Ickworth, and the daughter of the anonymous earl. And what right has a poor Yankee, like me, to insinuate the slightest suspicion against what he says?
But, as upon further consideration, I imagined that the peeress might decline the honor of my company, since I had no formal card of introduction; I marched on, and rejoined my companion, whom I at once endeavored to draw out, touching Lord Lovely; but he only made mysterious answers; and turned off the conversation, by allusions to his visits to Ickworth in Suffolk, the magnificent seat of the Most Noble Marquis of Bristol, who had repeatedly assured Harry that he might consider Ickworth his home.
In the House of Lords the Ministry were nowhere in debate. Something, indeed, should be said for Lord Hervey, who had been raised to the Upper House as Baron Hervey of Ickworth in 1733, and who made some speeches full of clear good-sense and sound moderating argument in support of Walpole's policy.
Evelyn Pierrepont, first Duke of Kingston Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1720 Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Frances, Countess of Mar Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Alexander Pope Joseph Addison Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret Horace Walpole John, Lord Hervey of Ickworth Mary, Countess of Bute Edward Wortley Montagu, Junior
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