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But Oh! how inferior [..]are the accomplishmentsof Sir James to those of his so greatly envied Rival!Sir James is one of the mostfrequent of our most Visitors, & is almost always of our Parties.We have since often met Mr & Mrs Marlowebut no Cleveland – he is always engaged somewhere else. Mrs Marlowe fatigues me to Death every time I see her by her tiresome Conversa::tions about You & Eloisa. She is so Stupid!I live in the hope of seeing her irrisistable Brother to night, as we are going to Lady Flambeau's, who is I know intimate with the Marlowes. Our party will be Lady Lesley, Ma::tilda, Fitzgerald, Sir James Gower, & myself. We see little of Sir George, who is almost always at the

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