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Thus the income upon which Steele married was rather more than a thousand a-year, and Miss Scurlock's mother had an estate of about L330 a-year. Mary Scurlock had been a friend of Steele's first wife, for before marriage she recalls Steele to her mother's mind by saying, 'It is the survivor of the person to whose funeral I went in my illness.
Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays

When she went away, accompanying her Majesty to Hampton Court, a darkness fell over London. Gods, what nights has Esmond passed, thinking of her, rhyming about her, talking about her! His friend Dick Steele was at this time courting the young lady, Mrs. Scurlock, whom he married; she had a lodging in Kensington Square, hard by my Lady Castlewood's house there.
William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

Scurlock" confesses candidly that he had been pledging her too well: "I have been in very good company, where your health, under the character of the woman I loved best, has been often drunk; so that I may say that I am dead drunk for your sake, which is more than I die for you."
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell - Essays
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