Volume the Third: Diplomatic Display London British Library, Add. MS. 65381
shall cut a sad figure among all
your Devonshire Beaux in this dusty, travelling apparel, and I
havenot wherewithal to change it. You can procure lend me somepowder perhaps, and I must get a pair of
Shoesfrom one of the Men, for I was in such a devil of a
hurry to leave Lyons that I had not time tohave anything pack'd packedup pack up anything but some linen." Kitty very readily undertook
to procure for him every thinghe wanted, & telling the
footman to shew him intoMr Stanley's dreſsing room, gave Nanny
orders to send in some powder & pomatum, which orders
Nanny chose to execute in person. As Stanley's pre::parations in dreſsing were
confined to such very trifling articles, Kitty of course expected
him in about ten minutes; but she found that it had not been
merely a boast of vanity in saying that he was dilatory in that
respect, as he kept her waiting for him above half an hour, so that the Clock had struck ten before he entered the
roomand the rest of the party had gone beforeby1 eight.
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