Volume the Third: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 65381
his person was uncommonly fine,
his Spirits &Vivacity suited to her own, and his Mannersat once so animated & gentleinsinuating1,
that shethought it must be impoſsible for him to
beotherwisethan amiable, and was ready to give himCredit for being perfectlycompletely so. He knew the powers of them himself; to them he
had oftenbeen endebted for
his father's forgiveneſs of faults which had he been
awkward & inelegant would have appeared very serious; to
them, even more than to his person or his fortune, he owed the
regard which almost every one was disposedto feel for him, and
which young Women inparticular were inclined to entertain.disposed to feel. Their influ::ence was acknowledged
on the present occasionby Kitty, whose Anger
they entirely dispelled,and whose Chearfulneſs they had power not onlyto restore, but to raise —. The Evening paſsed offas agreably as the
one that had preceded it; theycontinued talking to each other,
during the cheif partof it,
And such was the power of his Addreſs, & the
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