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BC.770.060
17-21 May 1770:1631 (198)
London. . . The following anecdote is a fact--A lady of high
rank, whose amiable disposition renders her the delight of
her family and friends, was going to an Assembly, but
calling on another lady who was to accompany her, heard by a
gentleman present, of a poor meritorious family in great
distress; her Grace complained of the head-ache, begged to
be excused from accompanying them to the assembly, ordered
her chair home; undressed, sought after and relieved the
distressed family, before she slept, saying to her woman,
"How cheaply I purchase my pleasure! it would have cost me
much more at the Assembly." ---How pleasing is it, in this
degenerate age, to find such goodness and greatness united!
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