Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 59874
none of their faces so well
as I do your own. Yetthey are all handsome –
Lady Lesley indeed I haveseen before; her Daughters I beleive
would in general be said to have a finer face than herLadyship, and Yet what with the
charms ofa BloomingComplexion, a little Affectationand a great deal of Small-talk, (in each ofwhich She is superior to the YoungLadies) she will I dare say gain herself
as many admirers as the more regular features of Matilda,
&Margaret. I am sure that you will agree with me in saying that they can
none of them beof a proper size for real Beauty, when you know that two of them are taller
& the othershorter than ourselves. In spite of this Defect (or rather by reason of it) there
is something