 I told her so, and she was not so tolerable twenty years ago that she needed have taken it for flattery, but she did, and literally gave me a box on the ear. She is very lively, all her senses perfect, her languages as imperfect as ever, her avarice greater.  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford - Page 478by Horace Walpole - 1857Full view - About this book
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