Volume the Third: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 65381
will oblige me very much by
desiring your sonto leave Cheattwynde1, or I cannot be
answerable forwhat may happen between him and my Neice.You will be surprised to hear me say it, she continued, lowering her voice, but
truth will out, and I must own that Kitty is one of themost impudent Girls that ever existed. Herintimacies with YoungMen are abominable, and it is all
the same to her, who it is, no onecomes amiſs to her – I aſsure you Sir, that I have seen
her sit and laugh and whisper with ayoung Man whom she has not seen above half a dozen times.
Her behaviour indeed is scanda::lous, and
therefore I beg you will send your Son
away immediately, or everything will be at sixes&
sevens." Mr Stanley who from one part of herSpeech had scarcely known to what length her
insinuations of Kitty's impudence were meant to extend, now
endeavoured to quiet herfears on the occasion, by aſsuring her, that on every
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