Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . queenshabitual employment), or thelike. She describes the houseas covered with laurel out-side, and within furnishedwith home-spun stuff, andadorned with fine china andprints. She soon found a suitor,one whose understanding-was not much improved, hiseducation that of a countrysquire ; but his suit was notsanctioned by his jjarents, thematch was broken off, and he soon after died of grief To distract her mind
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . queenshabitual employment), or thelike. She describes the houseas covered with laurel out-side, and within furnishedwith home-spun stuff, andadorned with fine china andprints. She soon found a suitor,one whose understanding-was not much improved, hiseducation that of a countrysquire ; but his suit was notsanctioned by his jjarents, thematch was broken off, and he soon after died of grief To distract her mind she wentto winter with her relations. Lord and Lady Lansdowne, whohad just been released from two years imprisonment inthe Tower, and were living at their country-seat near as a girl of seventeen she met Alexander Pendarves,a man of sixty—fat, snuffy, dirty, ugly, gouty and found his large unwieldy person and his crimson coun-tenance subjects of great mirth and observation, till shelearned, to her horror, that Gromio, as she called him, wasthe husband her relations had chosen for her. She perceivedit to be her duty to obey those who wished to see her settled. 3IRS. DELAXY, BY JOHX OriE. {Xational Portrait Gallery). 202 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. A Circleof Friends. CMldreD. [1714 in the world, to ease her friends of an expense and care, andaccepted him as cheerfully as she could. After marriage shecontinued to tind him a person rather disgusting than en-gaging, but she heroically concealed her hatred of him, andwas at the utmost pains to oblige him. After many over-turns of the chaise on the Cornish roads, at the end of thewedding journey she reached his home—an old castle whosehall had no windows, the floor of the parlour was rotten, andthe ceiling broken down; what windows it had were placedhigh above her head. After two years of marriage Gromio began to drink deeply,and when not suffering from gout, was brought home drunkat 6 The young wifes life in Lo
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