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MEMOIRS

OF

COUNT GRAMMONT.

CHAPTER VII.

THE Chevalier de Grammont, never satisfied in his amours, was fortunate without being beloved, and became jealous without having an attach

ment.

Mrs. Middleton, as we have said, was going to experience what methods he could invent to torment, after having experienced his powers of pleasing.

He went in search of her to the Queen's drawing-room, where there was a ball: there she was; but fortu

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nately for her, Miss Hamilton was there likewise. It had so happened, that of all the beautiful women at court, this was the lady whom he had seen the least of, and whom he had heard most commended: this, therefore, was the first time that he had a close view of her, and he soon found that he had seen nothing at court before this instant. He asked her some questions, to which she replied: while she danced, his eyes were continually fixed upon her; and from that moment his resentment against Mrs. Middleton was entirely extinguished. Miss Hamilton was at the happy age when the charms of the fair sex begin to bloom: she had the finest shape, the loveliest neck, and most beautiful arms in the world: she was majestic and graceful in all her movements; and she was the original from which all the ladies copied in

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Pub July 1 1808. by John White, Fleet St. & John Scott Strand,

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