Volume the Third: Diplomatic Display London British Library, Add. MS. 65381
"I do not know what you mean Ma'am aboutMama's taking me to another. You know I amcome out."
"Oh! dear MrsPercival Peterson said Mrs Stanly, you must not beleive every thing that my
lively Camilla says, for her spirits are prodigiously high
sometimes, and she frequently speaks without thinking. I am
sureit is impoſsible for any
one to have been at amore elegant or agreable dance, and so she
wishesto expreſs herself I am certain."
"To be sure I do, said Camilla very sulkily, only I must say that it is not very pleasant to have any body behave so rude to one as to be quite shocking! I am sure I am not at all offended,and should not care if all the World were to stand above me, but still it is extremely abo::minable, & what I cannot put up with. It is not that I mind it in the least, for I had just as soon stand at the bottom as at the top allnight long, if it was not so very disagreable –.But to have a person come in,1 the middle of the
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