... there is no volume of scandal from the days of The Town and Country Magazine to the more or less faked Recollections of Lady Cardigan that is not drawn upon to add pepper and vinegar to this piquant salad. Ueople don't know how entertaining a study genealogy ...

... burn, as he tells us his own grandmother burnt the whole of the copies that she could pur chase of the first edition of Lady Cardigan's Memoirs, because she so much resented the things which were said about her friends. This act must have given great joy ...