Identifier: somecelebratedir00gera (find matches)
Title: Some celebrated Irish beauties of the last century
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gerard, Frances A
Subjects: Women
Publisher: London, Ward and Downey limited
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston College Libraries

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restraint would have been of use. They, especially Nanny,
grew more ungovernable from want of contradiction. Even
Gilly has to report unfavourably to Selwyn of his favourite.
" Nanny grows so intolerably passionate that I wish, some
time or other, she may not hurt her sister. She constantly
throws the cards in her face if she is not satisfied with her
hand, as if she were the daughter of the Bishop of London.
Pray send her some serious admonition, her spirit is much
beyond that of her late Mamma's. There is seldom a night
that she does not fight us all round ; the very last night she
hit me a box on the ear, and told her good-natured stepmother
not to be so impertinent as to trouble her head about her.
Her father talks to her out of Halifaxs advice to his
daughters, which God knows comes too early in the day for
our comprehension, so I fear she will be outdone before she
knows she is to blame.
And yet this same little termagant had a kind heart. Here
is a letter of hers which her friend, George Selwyn, preserved
as a proof of her fine disposition.
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LADY ANNE FOLEY.
(To face page 78.

Maria, Countess of Coventry. 79

" March 4th, 1770.

" MY DEAR NURSE,—This is the only opportunity I have of
writing you a line to let you know we are all well. I am
sorry I have not time to write a line to your poor Polly. My
love to her, and tell her I shall not forget her when I grow
up. I will remember you likewise you may depend upon it.
I long to see you, but longing will not do. I had not time to
write to you that time you went to Mr. Burgess. He told me
you were very well. If I can know in two or three days how
you are, I shall be contented, so adieu,
" I am your ever-loving friend,
"ANNE COVENTRY.

3 To Mrs. Shelton at the Earl of March,
" Piccadilly"."

Poor little Lady Anne, spoiled on one hand, lectured on the
other, her life fulfilled Gilly Williams' prophecy. She married,
when only seventeen, Colonel Foley, but soon afterwards
was divorced and re-married to Captain Samuel Wright. She
died in 1784. . . .

As Thackeray says, " Poor painted mother, poor children !"

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